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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk

Format: Paperback
Author: Jennifer Niven
ReleaseDate: 10 October, 2001
Publisher: Hyperion
Rating:

Another amazing arctic adventure story
I love reading the stories of the great arctic adventures. . This one is awesome! It's basiclly the opposite of Shackeltons Endurance. . . No comradery, lots of death, a coward for a leader and even at the other end of the world. It really offers up a contrast. Yet through all the struggles heros still arise to meet the challenge.

ABSOLUTELY ENTHRALLING!
We had a house full of family guests and I found myself sneaking away just to try and grab a few more pages of this thrilling, yet horrifying account of the voyage of the Karluk. I absolutely could not put this book down. On one hand, I almost dreaded to pick the book up because Niven truly brings these characters to life and you become very involved with them. On the other, I just had to know who would and who would not survive and how the ones who did survive managed to do it. Niven did a superb job all around. .

Another great Artic adventure, on par with "South"
This book is on par with it. For me "South", is the classic Polar expedition tragedy book. However in any second source history book, there are sometimes some niggling details that are wrong. The fact that another "doomed" expedition had some survivers, may not have been known to the crew on this one. But its not clear that is what happened. Now I want to go find that book and read it. But had you only read the original books & sources you would have come away with a completely different perspective. Ms. Niven got to the heart of the trip and who were really the heros here and who were the cads.

But, this is more than just a man triumphs over nature book. Some of these folks survived but it wasn't great. It was a good read though and I'm glad I picked it up. I'm going after Ms. Niven's other book "Ada" next.

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