Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk -- Buddy Levy, Paperback Sociology ISBN: 9781646143030

ISBN: 9781646143030

becomes an object of disgrace to his family

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and our relationship with the natural world

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk -- Buddy Levy, Paperback Sociology ISBN: 9781646143030National Outdoor Book Awards Winner The true, harrowing story of the ill fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden hulled brigantine Karluk 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