eo 26 - Wednesday, June 20, 1990 - North Shore News entertainment Wg Book explores ill-fated Arctic trek From page 24 old girl) to trek to land on Karluk. uninhabited Wrangell Island. The journey was doomed from Bartlett then set out, travelling the start, thanks to the parsimonious with an Inuk crew-member by dog contributions of the Canadian sled, to get help. government which launched the But the nearest telegraph sta- exploration in a ship unsuited to tions lay over 200 miles away in northern sailing. Siberia, an arduous trip across Trapped in thick ice, the Karluk broken sea-ice which took Bartlett sank, leaving its 25 passengers and his companion 45 days to ef- stranded on ice pans drifting be- fect. Fram there they slogged a tween Alaska and Siberia. further 400 mil»s on foot until they Thanks to Bartlett's experience finally stumble:; on a Russian and insistence, food and fuel trader who was able to send out a caches ha:! been established on message. the ice beforehand that made it The survivors were finally possible for the group (which in- plucked from Wrangell Island cluded a woman and an 11-year eight months after the sinking of THE DRAG©NBOAT FESTIVAL their ship. Bartlett received an award from the Royal Geographical Society for ‘‘out- standing heroism.”’ This was no mean accomplishment for a man who abandoned pre-university studies for seamanship to avoid the censure and embarrassment of a chronic bed-wetting problem. Harold Horwood’s Bartlett the Great Explorer (Doubleday; 169 pp.; $9.95) lacks the variety and impact of Burton but then the Arc- tic provides a rather stark setting when compared with the more exotic locales of Burton’s peregrinations. SCHEDULE OF ENTERTAINMENT SUNDAY SATURDAY || FRIDAY 12 Noon 12 thru 5 p.m. 12:30 - 5 p.m. 1:15 &3p.m. 3:00 & 8 p.m. 4:15 - 5:15 p.m. 6:15 - 6:45 p.m. 10:00 - Midnight 9 a.m. 10 a.m. 10 a.m. thru 9 p.m. 12 noon Noon & 5:45 p.m. 1:00, 3:00 & 5 p.m. 1:45 & 3:30 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. 2 p.m. 7 p.m. 9 p.m. - Midnight 9 a.m. -4 p.m. 10 a.m. 10 a.m. thru 9 p.m. 12 Noon & 2 p.m. 12 Noon 1 p.m. & 4 p.m. Festival Opening - Special children’s events Rainbow Wars - The Expo 86 Movie Daredevils BMX Demo Team Drums of Ghana & The Sounds of the Incas Juba - The Sounds of South Africa Strathcona Chinese Dance Company OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONIES Jazzmanian Devils ‘Bop The Night Away’ Dragon Boat Qualifying Races Start Festival Opening & International Food Fair Rainbow Wars - The Expo 86 movie BC Parachute Team Demo Kung Fu - Martial Arts Demo Los Gavilanes - Mexican Mariachi Katari Taiko Dragon Boat Qualifying Races cont... Robert Minden Ensemble Linda Magno - ‘Filipino Pop Star’ Latin Dance Night - Salsa Ferreras plus the Oscar Neito Dancers and Lambada Lessons Dragon Boat Races - Championship Finals Festival Opens Rainbow Wars - The Expo 86 Movie The Music of China BC Parachute Team Demo Shih Sisters - Sensational Chamber Trio Vancouver Symphony Orchestra World Premiere of ‘Spheres of Light’ conducted by Derrick Inouye AWARD CEREMONIES Sibel Thrasher siar of Ain't Misbehavin’ Rockin’ and Dancin’ with Ska-Boom Plus... the best street entertainers — all day, every day... a juggling school, Imagination Market, a Dragon Tales Exhibit and much more. CATHAY PACIFIC Presented by Hongkong Bank of Canada