Full name: The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk

Author: Jennifer Niven Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Adventure, Travel Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780786884469 0786884460

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, exposure--and 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 journey and the crews desperate attempts to find a way home. Similar books: Ninety Degrees North by Fergus Fleming Ghosts of Cape Sabine by Leonard F. Guttridge Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides Ordeal by Ice by Farley Mowat In the Land of White Death by Valerian Albanov Ada Blackjack by Jennifer Niven Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen Icebound by Leonard F. Guttridge Weird and Tragic Shores by Chauncey Loomis Karluk by William Laird McKinlay Across the Top of the World by James P. Delgado Frozen in Time by Owen Beattie The Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton The Man Who Ate His Boots by Anthony Brandt Endurance by Alfred Lansing Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane Island of the Lost by Joan Druett Shackleton's Forgotten Men by Lennard Bickel The Good Rain by Timothy Egan