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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk:
"At first I thought, “Why am I reading this book?” I’ve read “The Ice Master”. I’ve been to Brigus, NL, twice. The first time was as a member of the New Bedford Harbor Sea Chanty Chorus, representing the “Ernestina”, which was then the name of Bartlet"
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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk:
"This is the second of Levy's Arctic adventure and survival books I've read, and both are gripping and well-written. This story takes place in 1913-1914 along the coast of Alaska and northeastern Siberia. A Canadian scientific expedition organized by "
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“...fortune always favors the bold.”
― Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
― Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
“Ultimately, with ice pressing in on them from all sides, Greely had made the decision to commit the boats and men to the mercies of the floes, with the forlorn hope that tides and winds would propel them south to Cape Sabine. If that failed, they would abandon everything not essential and attempt to cross ice bridges from floe to floe until they reached land. Some of Greely’s men disagreed with him, muttering that his decisions were madness and amounted to suicide. One of the men said he feared “another Franklin disaster.” The expedition doctor scribbled furiously in his journal: “It is terrible to float in this manner, in the snow, fog, and dark. This seems to me like a nightmare in one of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories.” And in many ways, it was.”
― Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
― Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
“Just before noon on February 28, 1882, the thin outline of a glowing orb pierced the southern skyline and hung there, like a wafer pasted in the air. Though faint, the sight was glorious: It was the first time they had seen the sun in 137 days.”
― Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
― Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
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