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

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 nav...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levy, Buddy, 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2022].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Karluk (Ship)
Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration.
Canadian Arctic Expedition > (1913-1918)
Bartlett, Bob, > 1875-1946.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, > 1879-1962.
Shipwrecks > Arctic Ocean.
Table of 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 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.