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The Ice Master : The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk Hardcover - 2000
by Jennifer Niven
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- Title The Ice Master : The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
- Author Jennifer Niven
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 402
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Hyperion Press, New York
- Date 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0786865296I4N00
- ISBN 9780786865291 / 0786865296
- Weight 1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
- Dimensions 9.53 x 6.6 x 1.22 in (24.21 x 16.76 x 3.10 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00061414
- Dewey Decimal Code 919.804
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Summary
The riveting story of the 1913 expedition of twenty-five people who sailed out of British Columbia in search of an undiscovered Arctic continent. But tragedy struck in January 1914 when an ice cap tore a hole in the vessel's hull, shipwrecking all on board. The castaways abandoned ship and suffered from battle starvation, snow blindness, exposure to the brutal winter, and each other. The Ice Master is an epic tale of true adventure that rivals the most dramatic fiction. Drawing on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, and even an interview with the one living survivor, Jennifer Niven re-creates with astonishing accuracy and immediacy the Karluk's ill-fated journey and her crew's desperate attempts to find a way home from the icy wastes of the Arctic.
First line
The island was a no-man's-land, little more than a mountainous slab of rock high above the Arctic Circle.