- Title: Arctic Explorations In The Years 1853,'54, '55
- Author: Elisha Kent Kane
Format/binding: Hardcover
Book condition: Used - but in good condition. NOT ex-library. Outside of books are a little rough with some wear to spine. Vol. 2 has some foxing to the front of the book. Some shelf wear to Volume 1.
Quantity available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Childs & Peterson
Place: Philedelphia
Date Published: 1856
Attributes: First Edition
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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.