Research Catalog

Title

Empire of ice and stone : the disastrous and heroic voyage of the Karluk / Buddy Levy.

Author

Levy, Buddy, 1960-

Publication

• New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

xvi, 412 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 25 cm

Summary

"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"--

Alternative Title

Disastrous and heroic voyage of the Karluk

Subject

• Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946
• Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962
• Karluk (Ship)
• Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918)
• 1913-1918
• Shipwrecks > Arctic Ocean
• Discoveries in geography
• Shipwrecks
• Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration
• Arctic Ocean
• Arctic Regions
• Polar regions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-401) and index.

Contents

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 ice -- 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.

Call Number

JFE 23-658

ISBN

• 9781250274441
• 1250274443

LCCN

2022034623

OCLC

1289246157

Author

Levy, Buddy, 1960- author.

Title

Empire of ice and stone : the disastrous and heroic voyage of the Karluk / Buddy Levy.

Publisher

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-401) and index.

Chronological Term

1913-1918

Research Call Number

JFE 23-658