{"product_id":"empire-of-ice-and-stone-the-disastrous-and-heroic-voyage-of-the-karluk-9781250274441","title":"Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\nIn the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine \u003ci\u003eKarluk\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\nJust six weeks after the \u003ci\u003eKarluk\u003c\/i\u003e departed, giant ice floes surrounded her. Stefansson disembarked with five companions as the ship became icebound and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again.\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\nTwenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader were 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.\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\nSet against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Ice and Stone \u003c\/i\u003etells 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Buddy Levy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.47h x 6.60w x 1.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250274441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2022 pg. 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2022 pg. 118","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40613850710131,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":33.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_18c22984-d7bb-48bf-8385-7b304cd4c29d.jpg?v=1669993354","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/empire-of-ice-and-stone-the-disastrous-and-heroic-voyage-of-the-karluk-9781250274441","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}