{"product_id":"empire-of-ice-and-stone-the-disastrous-and-heroic-voyage-of-the-karluk-hardcover","title":"Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNational Outdoor Book Awards Winner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKarluk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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.Just six weeks after the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKarluk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSet against the backdrop of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTitanic\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edisaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEmpire of Ice and Stone\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"ANT Stores","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44816053436602,"sku":"BKDP-0134","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/6952\/2618\/files\/81vUAQpvhZL._SL1500.jpg?v=1746551821","url":"https:\/\/checkout.s101.com\/products\/empire-of-ice-and-stone-the-disastrous-and-heroic-voyage-of-the-karluk-hardcover","provider":"S101","version":"1.0","type":"link"}