Buddy Levy - Empire of Ice and Stone

Oh boy do we have an adventure for you. Buddy Levy is back and talking to you about his latest book Empire of Ice and Stone. In the age of discovery in the early 1900s. The Karluk and fellow ships sail north from Alaska on a scientific expedition. Then, early winter sets in and chaos ensues. The Karluk is beset the expedition divides. Captain Bob Barlett rises to the occasion and does more than seems humanly possible to rescue his crew; and a cat named Nigeraurak.

This adventure is riveting. You will LOVE the book. One fun note several of the Shackleton South Pole Expedition, not having enough adventure, decided to join this soon to be doomed expedition.

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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 weeks after the Karluk 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.

Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells 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.