Levy relies heavily on the writings of survivors to frame a story that includes all the elements of a classic polar expedition gone wrong: starvation, frostbite, amputations, conflicts, miserable deaths, a heroic trek for help, narrow escapes, a possible murder (it’s never been proven), and a lot more. McConnell is quoted late in Buddy Levy’s “Empire of Ice and Stone,” a gripping new account of the last famous great disaster during the age of Arctic exploration. Having been locked in the Arctic for over a year, they were resigned to enduring a second winter when the ship suddenly appeared offshore near the very end of the open water season. He, like the others still alive on the island, was near death from malnutrition and an unknown disease possibly tied to pemican they had eaten. The man, Fred Mauer, could be excused for barely being able to respond to his rescuers. “The poor creature simply rose and stood rigidly beside the tent, gazing at us as if dazed.” McConnell stood aboard the King and Winge, a ship that had steamed northeastward from Nome to save survivors of the sunken Karluk in September of 1914. “He did not show any signs of joy,” Burt McConnell wrote of his first sighting of a human on the shore of Wrangel Island, north of Siberia, far above the Arctic Circle. “Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk”īy Buddy Levy St.
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