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Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition In Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, 54, 55
Arctic Explorations The Second Grinnell Expedition In Search of Sir John Franklin 1853 54 55 Author:Elisha Kent Kane Series: The Lakeside Classics which is an annual series published annually since 1903. The Classics emphasize first-person narratives of American history, usually taken from books long out-of-print and not easily obtainable. This volume is the 94th in the series. In the original book, the author, Elisha Kent Kane, M.D., writes in the preface... more » "I have availed myself..to connect together the passages of my journal that could have interest for the general reader." The preface was dated July 4, 1856, an appropriately celebratory day for Kane. The year before, Kane and his crew emerged from two long winters of virtual imprisonment in the Arctic. They regained their freedom when they relinquished their quest to discover the whereabouts of a British explorer, Sir John Franklin, who had disappeared a few years earlier in the northern regions of Greenland."« less