Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk Caldecott

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk CaldecottThe 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 worlds greatest living ice navigator. The expeditions visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant

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