King and Wing
Books
- Left on the Ice The Karluk Disaster and the Canadian Arctic Expedition's Fight for Survival · Liszt Think
In August 1913, the Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, became trapped in pack ice off Alaska. When leader Vilhjalmur Stefansson departed on a hunting trip, he never returned to the vessel.
- Bartlett and Kataktovik Strike Out Alone…r approach, that the men he had left behind must survive through another two months of hunger and uncertainty. He arranged for the schooner King and Wing, a small vessel that had operated in the region, to stand ready when the ice permitted. He wrote to the families of the dead, to the expedi…
- The Walk Across the Chukchi Sea…the survivors through months of hunger, disease, and psychological collapse. Three of them would die before the American fishing schooners King and Wing finally reached the island in September 1914, carrying the news that members of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, organized by Vilhjalmur Ste…