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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 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 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 Bartletts 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 Levys 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.
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For my grandson, Luke, who shares with me a love of the outdoors and wild things
CREW MEMBERS (AND AGE AT TIME OF EXPEDITION DEPARTURE IN JUNE 1913)
Robert Abram Bartlett, captain and master mariner (37)
Alexander Sandy Anderson, first officer (22)
Charles Barker, second officer (20s)
John Munro, chief engineer (30s)
Robert Williamson, second engineer (36)
John Brady, seaman (20s)
George Breddy, fireman (20s)
Ernest Charlie Chafe, messroom boy (19)
Edmund Ned Lawrence Golightly (a.k.a. Archie King), seaman (20s)
Fred Maurer, fireman (21)
Stanley Morris, seaman (26)
Robert Templeman, cook and steward (29)
Hugh Clam Williams, seaman (20s)
John Jack Hadley, carpenter (57)
THE SCIENTIFIC MEMBERS
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, expedition leader (33)
Diamond Jenness, anthropologist (27)
Burt McConnell, secretary (24)
George H. Wilkins, photographer (24)
Henri Beuchat, anthropologist (34)
Alistair Forbes Mackay, surgeon (35)
William Laird McKinlay, magnetician and meteorologist (24)
George Malloch, geologist (33)
Bjarne Mamen, assistant topographer (22)
James Murray, oceanographer (46)
INUIT (ESKIMO) MEMBERS
Pauyuraq Jerry, hunter (20s)
Asecaq Jimmy, hunter (20s)
Kataktovik, hunter (19)
Kuraluk, hunter (late 20s)
Kiruk Auntie, seamstress, wife of Kuraluk (late 20s)
Qagguluk Helen, daughter of Kuraluk and Kiruk (8)
Mugpi Ruth, daughter of Kuraluk and Kiruk (3)
Nigeraurak, ships cat (less than 1 year old)
STEFANSSONS CARIBOU HUNTING PARTYDEPARTED CGS KARLUK SEPTEMBER 20, 1913
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, expedition leader (33)
Diamond Jenness, anthropologist (27)
Burt McConnell, secretary (24)
George H. Wilkins, photographer (24)
Pauyuraq Jerry, hunter (20s)
Asecaq Jimmy, hunter (20s)
ADVANCE SHORE PARTYDEPARTED SHIPWRECK CAMP JANUARY 21, 1914
Bjarne Mamen, assistant topographer (22) (initially led Shore Party but returned)
Alexander Sandy Anderson, first officer (22)
Charles Barker, second officer (20s)
Edmund Ned Lawrence Golightly (a.k.a. Archie King), seaman (20s)
John Brady, seaman (20s)
PARTY SEEKING LAND VIA MAN-HAULING SLEDSDEPARTED SHIPWRECK CAMP FEBRUARY 6, 1914
Alistair Forbes Mackay, surgeon (35)
James Murray, oceanographer (46)
Henri Beuchat, anthropologist (34)
Stanley Morris, seaman (26)
WRANGEL ISLAND PARTYDEPARTED SHIPWRECK CAMP FEBRUARY 1920, 1914
Robert Abram Bartlett, captain and master mariner (37)
William Laird McKinlay, magnetician and meteorologist (24)
Bjarne Mamen, assistant topographer (22)
Kataktovik, hunter (19)
Robert Templeman, cook and steward (29)
Kuraluk, hunter (late 20s)
Kiruk Auntie, seamstress, wife of Kuraluk (late 20s)
Qagguluk Helen, daughter of Kuraluk and Kiruk (8)
Mugpi Ruth, daughter of Kuraluk and Kiruk (3)
John Jack Hadley, carpenter (57)
John Munro, chief engineer (30s)
Robert Williamson, second engineer (36)
George Breddy, fireman (20s)
Fred Maurer, fireman (21)
George Malloch, geologist (33)
Hugh Clam Williams, seaman (20s)
Ernest Charlie Chafe, messroom boy (19)
Erik the Red explores Greenland and becomes its first permanent settler.
1497John Cabot explores the Grand Banks fishing grounds off Labrador and Newfoundland and claims the territory for England.
159497Willem Barents searches for the Northeast Passage, wintering over at Novaya Zemlya in 159697.
161011Henry Hudson searches for the Northwest Passage, wintering at Hudson Bay. His crew mutinies, setting Hudson adrift along with his son and seven men. They are never seen again.
1670Hudsons Bay Company is founded.
1778Captain James Cook attempts a maritime route through the Arctic to the Pacific Ocean, crossing the Chukchi Sea. The voyage is blocked by sea ice near Icy Cape, Alaska.
182933Captain John Ross explores the Canadian Arctic and becomes the first European to reach the north magnetic pole.
184548Sir John Franklin and Captain Francis Crozier sail HMS Terror and HMS Erebus into the Arctic, searching for the Northwest Passage. The ships are trapped in ice, and 129 expedition members are lost. After many decades and some forty expeditions searching for the lost ships, in 2014 and 2016 the two ships are found, solving a 170-year-old mystery.
1878Adolf Erik Nordenskild successfully completes the first confirmed navigation of the Northeast Passage in SS Vega.
1879Lieutenant Commander George Washington De Long, in USS Jeannette, attempts to reach the North Pole. His ship is trapped in ice near Wrangel and Herald Islands in Chukchi Sea and beset for two winters until crushed by the ice. Some twenty members of the crew, including De Long, die of exposure and starvation trying to reach land.
188184First Lieutenant Adolphus Greely of the Fifth United States Cavalry leads Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, setting a record for Farthest North. Eighteen men die on the expedition and rescuers discover signs of cannibalism.
1888Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen attempts to reach the North Pole on Fram. Ship trapped in ice, drifts for thirty-five months, and breaks Greelys Farthest North record.
19036Roald Amundsen navigates the Northwest Passage in his ship Gja.
19079Dr. Frederick Cook claims to reach the North Pole on April 21, 1908. His claim is disputed.
19079Robert Peary reaches the North Pole on April 6, 1909. Captain Robert Bartlett helms SS Roosevelt and makes it within 150 miles of the North Pole, but Peary asks him to return to the Roosevelt. Pearys claim, disputed by some, is recognized by the National Geographic Society.
1912RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg and sinks four hundred miles south of Newfoundland, losing more than 1,500 passengers.
1913The Canadian Arctic Expedition, billed as the most ambitious Arctic scientific expedition in history, departs Canada for undiscovered lands.
Call it love of adventure if you will for as long as there is a square mile of the old earths surface that is unexplored, man will want to seek out that spot and find out all about it and bring back word of what he finds.
Captain Robert A. Bartlett
An adventure is a sign of incompetence.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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