{"product_id":"empire-of-ice-and-stone-9781250274441","title":"Empire of Ice and Stone","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Outdoor Book Awards Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. C\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407279006039,"sku":"9781250274441","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empire-of-ice-and-stone-9781250274441","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}