{"product_id":"empire-of-ice-and-stone-buddy-levy-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Buddy Levy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250871638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250871633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2023","brand":"Buddy Levy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44121864339711,"sku":"9781250871633","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4dd0edc9-0d44-4b21-9ba1-096d17d4f0ad.jpg?v=1687421870","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/empire-of-ice-and-stone-buddy-levy-9781250871633","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}