Robert Bartlett
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.
- The Ship and the Plan…umed that an aging whaler could penetrate the Arctic pack and serve as floating laboratory. These assumptions would soon be tested. Captain Robert Bartlett arrived at the dry dock in early July. A Newfoundlander bred to ice navigation, he had commanded Peary’s Roosevelt through the grip of nort…
- The Leader and the Captain…3, the whaler Karluk lay in dry dock at Esquimalt, her hull scraped and her seams caulked for a voyage she was never built to make. Captain Robert Bartlett walked her deck with a caulker’s eye, noting where the planks had softened, where the fastenings had worked loose from twenty years of seal…
- Stefansson Walks Away…eamen, rather than additional scientists or officers, hinted at mobility and self-sufficiency that a brief foray would not require. Captain Robert Bartlett received the news on the bridge, where he had been plotting the ship’s drift. He was forty years old, a Newfoundlander who had learned ice…