Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin (First Edition)
by Kane, Elisha Kent
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Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full black cloth stamped in blind, gilt lettering on the spine, corners frayed and worn, brown endpapers. 18 engraved plates and numerous wood-engraved text illustrations, complete with 2 folding maps. 467pp, 464pp. Previous owner's name on front fly leafs. Overall in VERY GOOD PLUS condition. A good gift. Elisha Kent Kane (28 February 1820 16 February 1857) was a medical officer in the United States Navy during the first half of the 19th century. He was a member of two Arctic expeditions to rescue the explorer Sir John Franklin. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kane was the son of John Kintzing Kane, a U.S. district judge, and Jane Duval Leiper. His brother was attorney, diplomat, abolitionist, and American Civil War cavalry general Thomas L. Kane. Kane graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1842. On 14 September 1843, he became Assistant Surgeon in the Navy. He served in the China Commercial Treaty mission under Caleb Cushing, in the Africa Squadron, and in the Marines during the Mexican-American War. Kane became senior medical officer of the unsuccessful Arctic expedition searching for explorer Sir John Franklin in 1850 and 1851. Kane organized and headed a second rescue expedition which sailed from New York 31 May 1853, and wintered in Rensselaer Bay. Though suffering from scurvy, and at times near death, he resolutely pushed on and chartered the coasts of Smith Sound (later called Kane Basin) and penetrated farther north than any other explorer had done up to that time. At Cape Constitution he discovered the ice-free Kennedy Channel, later followed by Isaac Israel Hayes, Charles Francis Hall, Augustus Greely, and Robert E. Peary in turn as they drove toward the North Pole. Kane finally abandoned the icebound brig Advance 20 May 1855 and escaped the clutches of the frozen north by an 83-day march of indomitable courage to Upernavik. The party, carrying the invalids, lost only one man in the retreat to stand in the annals of Arctic exploration as the archetype of victory over defeat. Kane returned to New York 11 October 1855 and the following year published his two-volume "Arctic Explorations." After visiting England, he sailed to Havana, Cuba, where he died. . First Edition. Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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- Title
- Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin (First Edition)
- Author
- Kane, Elisha Kent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Childs & Peterson
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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