Empire of ice and stone : the disastrous and heroic voyage of the Karluk /
Levy, Buddy, 1960-
Empire of ice and stone : the disastrous and heroic voyage of the Karluk / Disastrous and heroic voyage of the Karluk Buddy Levy. - First edition. - xvi, 412 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-401) and index.
The company of the Karluk -- Time line of relevant Arctic exploration, expeditions, and disasters -- Birth of an explorer -- Master mariner -- Toward the discovery of new lands -- Omens -- Mirages -- Beset -- The caribou hunt -- Adrift -- "As lambs left to the slaughter" -- A change of plans -- Winter is coming -- Long Arctic nights -- An Arctic Christmas -- Reunions -- "Funeral march" -- Shipwreck camp -- The wrong island -- Islands of the lost -- A mountain range of rice -- The ice road -- "Nuna! Nuna!" -- Searching for Crocker Land -- An audacious plan -- Hospital igloo -- Into the leads -- Rationing and divisions -- Ferrying -- Little Molly -- Smoke from a distant fire -- Separation and surgeries -- Heading east -- "As long as there is life, there is hope" -- Anything might yet happen -- Snow-blind -- News to the world -- Exodus to Cape Waring -- The Bear -- Crowbill Point -- "Our suspicions have been raised" -- Salad oil and scurvy grass -- "Doing something at last" -- The sea serpent -- The world at war -- "Starvation tin" -- "Days to try a man's soul" -- Confluence -- "Umiakpik kunno!" -- Reunited -- Beyond the ice -- Bartlett versus Stefansson.
"The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again. Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett's leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope. Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership: one selfless, one self-serving, and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of The Heroic Age of Discovery"--
9781250274441 1250274443
2022034623
GBC2M7238 bnb
020843101 Uk
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962.
Karluk (Ship)
Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918)
Shipwrecks--Arctic Ocean.
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration.
Empire of ice and stone : the disastrous and heroic voyage of the Karluk / Disastrous and heroic voyage of the Karluk Buddy Levy. - First edition. - xvi, 412 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-401) and index.
The company of the Karluk -- Time line of relevant Arctic exploration, expeditions, and disasters -- Birth of an explorer -- Master mariner -- Toward the discovery of new lands -- Omens -- Mirages -- Beset -- The caribou hunt -- Adrift -- "As lambs left to the slaughter" -- A change of plans -- Winter is coming -- Long Arctic nights -- An Arctic Christmas -- Reunions -- "Funeral march" -- Shipwreck camp -- The wrong island -- Islands of the lost -- A mountain range of rice -- The ice road -- "Nuna! Nuna!" -- Searching for Crocker Land -- An audacious plan -- Hospital igloo -- Into the leads -- Rationing and divisions -- Ferrying -- Little Molly -- Smoke from a distant fire -- Separation and surgeries -- Heading east -- "As long as there is life, there is hope" -- Anything might yet happen -- Snow-blind -- News to the world -- Exodus to Cape Waring -- The Bear -- Crowbill Point -- "Our suspicions have been raised" -- Salad oil and scurvy grass -- "Doing something at last" -- The sea serpent -- The world at war -- "Starvation tin" -- "Days to try a man's soul" -- Confluence -- "Umiakpik kunno!" -- Reunited -- Beyond the ice -- Bartlett versus Stefansson.
"The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again. Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett's leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope. Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership: one selfless, one self-serving, and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of The Heroic Age of Discovery"--
9781250274441 1250274443
2022034623
GBC2M7238 bnb
020843101 Uk
Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962.
Karluk (Ship)
Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918)
Shipwrecks--Arctic Ocean.
Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration.