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KANE, M.D., U.S.N., ELISHA KENT; LOOMIS, CHAUNCEY & MARTIN, CONSTANCE (EDITORS). ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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KANE, M.D., U.S.N., ELISHA KENT; LOOMIS, CHAUNCEY & MARTIN, CONSTANCE (EDITORS). Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition In Search Of Sir John Franklin 1853, 54, 55.
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago: 1996. The Lakeside Classics Series. h Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition.
In 1855, 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. Kane graphically describes the ravages of scurvy, starvation, and frostbite; squalid living conditins; and deterioration of mind, spirit, body as the crew survived at the very barest subsistence level. In the end, it is a story that celebrates endurance and sheer grit. Includes an Index.
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29.05 USD
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