Empire of Ice and Stone Quotes

“perhaps within just fifteen or twenty miles.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“He saw long lines of dark V-shapes winging their way south, and he knew they must be close to the island”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“By August 23, the Bear was ready to depart for Wrangel Island.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“incensed to learn the rest of the story: how Stefansson had reoutfitted what he was calling “the New Northern Party,”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“Cochran managed to reach Point Barrow on the evening of August 21. There, they would deliver mail and take on coal and water”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“Kuraluk and Auntie used every part of the large bearded seals, including the intestines,”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“Great care was taken in the skinning of the ugruks, for it is their skins that are used in the making of umiaks”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“Even so, the kayak proved a lifesaving addition to their hunting tools.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“remarking that it had taken five shots in the head to kill the animal.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“with their thick, tough skin and dense, almost impenetrable heads, they were extremely difficult to kill.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“It was their huge white ivory tusks—protruding two feet long straight out of their mouths like spears”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“The full-grown adults measured up to twelve feet long and could weigh up to three thousand pounds,”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“If he took his time and didn’t spook them, he might be able to paddle into position for a shot.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“he could see an open lane skirting around the floe on which the pod of five enormous animals were sunning”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“Kuraluk finally agreed to build a kayak if they worked on it together.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“Hadley and McKinlay convinced Kuraluk to attempt building a kayak.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“want go relief ships. Russian ships have wireless can get in touch with them if already at sea. BARTLETT, CAPTAIN.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“Two Russian icebreakers—Taimir and Vaigatch—had wintered at Vladivostok.* They were powerful, steel-hulled craft”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“Bartlett immediately made inquiries at St. Michael and learned of a few possibilities.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“As to ice conditions, Bartlett knew that it would not be until midsummer for ice breakup to allow safe”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“Now he lay lifeless on the windswept southern coast of Wrangel Island, dead at just thirty-three.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“He was dynamic, opinionated, vain, and brilliant, and had been finishing a postgraduate course at Yale”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“the entire Northeast Passage—the sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Arctic Ocean”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“and, by Bartlett’s calculations, traveled about two hundred miles.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“The two had trudged for seventeen days since leaving Icy Spit on Wrangel Island”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“and stood on the Siberian coast. It was April 4, 1914.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“After about four hours, they’d carved a route wide enough for the sled, and Bartlett went back and brought the dogs forward.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“then again by Admiral von Wrangel forty-two years later.”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“Bartlett knew that the coast had first been surveyed by Captain James Cook in 1778;”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

“in the morning light, and just past the lead he saw the ice foot: shore ice permanently attached to the land”
― Buddy Levy, Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk