{"product_id":"empire-of-ice-and-stone-the-disastrous-and-heroic-voyage-of-the-karluk-9781250871633","title":"Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Outdoor Book Awards Winner\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.Just six weeks after the \u003ci\u003eKarluk\u003c\/i\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet against the backdrop of the \u003ci\u003eTitanic \u003c\/i\u003edisaster 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBUDDY LEVY is the author of over half a dozen books, including\u003ci\u003e Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTragic Greely Polar Expedition; Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs; River of Darkness: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrancisco Orellana's Voyage of Death\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscovery Down the Amazon\u003c\/i\u003e. He is coauthor of\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Grand Canyon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGeronimo: Leadership \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrategies of an American Warrior. \u003c\/i\u003eHis books have been published in eight languages. He lives in Idaho.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50593245036818,"sku":"9781250871633","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_729cfa17-e969-47aa-ac78-9b8e53104447.jpg?v=1732113748","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/empire-of-ice-and-stone-the-disastrous-and-heroic-voyage-of-the-karluk-9781250871633","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}