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Damrons able narration carries listeners through this arduous journey with a steady tone that lightens at moments of joy and becomes grave at times of deep sadness and loss While the tale has all of the trappings of a great adventure novel neither the author nor Damron let listeners forget that the toll here was real human and significant Booklist

Will Damron sweeps listeners onto the Arctic ice with the shipwrecked crew of the Canadian KARLUK AudioFile

The true harrowing story of the illfated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it

In the summer of 1913 the woodenhulled 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 10day caribou hunting trip Most on board would never see him again

Twentytwo men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a milesquare ice floe their ship and their original leader gone Under Bartletts leadership they built makeshift 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 1000mile 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 selfserving 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

A Macmillan Audio production from St Martins Press