Departing Canada for the Arctic Ocean in 1913, the brigantine Karluk had world-class navigator Captain Bob Bartlett at the helm, while the expedition's leader was a flamboyant adventurer named Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Six weeks later, the ship became icebound and soon sank, stranding 22 men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters on a mile-square ice floe. In this gripping account, Buddy Levy explains how Bartlett rallied the survivors in a desperate attempt to make it back to civilization.