The Ice Master

“A riveting adventure”: the true story of a 1913 Arctic expedition that ended in disaster—and the captain's daring journey to save his surviving crew ( Booklist ). In 1913, the former whaling ship Karluk set out in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staff ever sent into the Arctic. Soon after, as winter took hold, they were blown off course by polar storms. When the ship became imprisoned in ice, it was abandoned by the expedition leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson.