The Ice Master
A Travel, History, Adventure book. My grandfather Babb spent a great deal of time traveling and lecturing, and I assume...
The Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staff ever sent into the Arctic. Soon after, winter had begun, they were blown off course by polar storms, the ship became imprisoned in ice, and the expedition was abandoned by its leader. Hundreds of miles from civilization, the castaways had no choice but to find solid ground as they struggled against starvation, snow blindness, disease, exposureand each other. After almost twelve months battling the elements, twelve survivors were rescued, thanks to the heroic efforts of their captain, Bartlett, the Ice Master, who traveled by foot across the ice and through Siberia to find help. Drawing on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, Jennifer Niven re-creates with astonishing accuracy the ill-fated...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 432 pages
- ISBN: 9780786884469 / 786884460
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unrelenting hardship - after 200 pages I started to feel beat up myself - Stefansson was a grifter for the ages, he would have made a fine Republican - Niven's next book, ADA BLACKJACK was even better - because of ADA I had to read her account of the doomed voyage of the Karluk - scoundrels aplenty with a few heroes which unsurprisingly... My grandfather Babb spent a great deal of time traveling and lecturing, and I assume that is how he acquired an autographed photograph of Vihjalmar Stefansson, a polar explorer. As a child I was fascinated by this picture of the famous man that my Grandpa knew a man with a strange name, dressed in fur and skins. Now that I have read... There are so many plus points to Jennifer Niven's 'The Ice Master'. Primarily the author has meticulously researched a long lost polar epic that should not have been forgotten or ignored in the first place. Also the author has embellished her narrative with a descriptive excellence that is of the highest quality writing in the field...
