{"product_id":"9781250871633","title":"Empire of Ice and Stone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-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\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buddy Levy","offers":[{"title":"St. Martin's Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-12-05","offer_id":44227456696575,"sku":"9781250871633","price":27.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3f3492dc-3f07-42d3-b7e6-cd1df2adb26f.jpg?v=1692895379","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781250871633","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}