Empire of Ice and StoneThe true, harrowing story of the ill fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson, hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed,