{"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":"Buddy Levy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50602065035560,"sku":"BKDP-0134","price":42.59,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0950\/5983\/7224\/files\/81vUAQpvhZL._SL1500_76508e0e-002d-4316-a2f0-b1445c42c503.jpg?v=1767114869","url":"https:\/\/cantstore.ca\/products\/empire-of-ice-and-stone-the-disastrous-and-heroic-voyage-of-the-karluk-hardcover","provider":"CANT Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}