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Title: The Ice Master : The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk by Jennifer Niven ISBN: 0-7868-8446-0 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (45 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Cold just reading this one!!!!
Comment: Ms. Niven has pulled together a wonderful account of the survivors of the Karkuk. This book is simply riveting from beginning to end and a must read for survivalist story fans. The sinking of the Karluk is proven to be just the beginning of the tale, but she never lets us miss a detail of the drifting along the ice for several months. The cracking and crushing of the ice as it works its crushing hands against the ship is described so well, you can almost hear it. These men, stranded on Wrangel Island as their brave captain + Eskimo, lived on mere rations more almost a year and still maintained a sense of hope. The fact that many survived showed that chracter and the will to live can sometimes be much stronger than the perils of starvation and frostbite (May I never find this to be true in my own life....) Each day, is lived in such agony, we the reader, are brought along the journeys with them, and feel as if we are leaving a group behind as the men move about the ice and land. A fascinating book, and well worth reading. After this, I promise you, saying "It's cold in here" will have a completely different meaning.
Rating: 5
Summary: Riveting story of survival & human spirit
Comment: Jennifer Niven's experience as a screenwriter stands her in good stead in "The Ice Master," a gripping tale of the doomed Arctic voyage of the ship Karluk. It is nearly impossible to imagine how anyone survived the Karluk, a rickety ship unsuited to the rigors of Arctic travel, manned by an ill-equipped & inexperienced group. The ship quickly became immobilized by an ice floe, at which point the expedition's "leader" callously abandoned his men. Embedded in the floe, the ship floated aimlessly while the remaining crew and passengers struggled to survive. After enduring months in the ice-locked ship, the Karluk was destroyed by shifting ice masses and sank, forcing the group to abandon ship and make camp on top of the ice. Later, the survivors trekked across treacherous ice until they reached a small, nearly uninhabitable island. There they hung on for many more months until their rescue, suffering from starvation, disease, frostbite, despair, and infighting. Niven's vivid descriptions of the horrors & deprivations faced by these individuals leave you awestruck at the strength of the human body and the power of the human spirit. Surviving by chewing seal blubber and walrus hides - snow blindness - a mysterious illness that left most of the survivors nearly incapacitated - hunting for game on a desolate and barren Arctic island with a sharpened stick - enduring below-zero temperatures and gale-force winds & snow for weeks at a time - 24-hour darkness in the winter - amputating frostbitten tissue with a pocket knife - it is nearly unbelievable. (Also unbelievable but infinitely more cheering is that the Karluk's little black cat managed to survive the ordeal, too.) Truly a book you cannot put down, that takes you outside your world & transports you to another place and time, and leaves you marveling at the good and evil that reside inside us all.
Rating: 5
Summary: Incredible Tue Survival Story - well told!
Comment: I haven't read a book from cover to cover in years. I picked this one up and could not put it down. The other reviews provide a nice summary of the story, so I won't repeat them, but I just wanted to "vote" here to give this my TOP rating. The haunting, cold, survival story has the added dimension that it is a true story - assembled from the diaries and interviews of the actual people who this happened to. This would make for a wonderful PBS movie, or a mini-series
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Title: Ada Blackjack : A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven ISBN: 0786868635 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 12 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: In the Land of White Death by David Roberts, Jon Krakauer, Alison Anderson, Valerian Albanov, Valerian Albanov ISBN: 067978361X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Last Voyage of the Karluk : A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster by William Laird McKinlay ISBN: 0312206550 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 19 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and The North Pole, 1818-1909 by Pierre Berton ISBN: 1585741167 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Karluk's Last Voyage by Captain Robert Bartlett, Ralph T. Hale, Bob Last Voyage of the Karluk Bartlett, Robert A. Bartlett ISBN: 0815411243 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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