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    Reference 3819 (2072)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Kane, Elisha Kent
    Title Arctic Explorations in the Years 1853,'54,'55: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin 2 VOLUME SET
    Publishing Information UK:Rediscovery Books Ltd., 2006 9781905748303
    Description 2006 Facsimile Edition reproduced with kind permission of The Royal Geographical Society: Vol 1: 464 pages, Vol 2: 467 pages. Previous owners neat dated signature both volumes otherwise contents clean. Appears unread. The account of the voyage to Smith Sound, and of the winter on the north-west coast of Greenland, with extensive notes on the flora and fauna. No one had yet sailed beyond its northern portals. Kane determined to do so. John P. Kennedy, secretary of the navy, gave enthusiastic personal support, and Henry Grinnell donated the brig Advance. Private subscription financed the enterprise. No trace of Franklin's party was found by the expedition but the coasts of Kane Basin were charted and Kennedy Channel was discovered Meteorological, magnetic, astronomical, and tidal observations, botanical, glacial, and geological surveys, studies of animal and Eskimo life, established sound foundations for the scientific study of the Arctic. In August 1854 Hayes [the surgeon] and eight men, protesting the commander's resolve to remain a second winter, announced their determination to hazard the journey to the South Greenland settlements. Kane, sanctioning the withdrawal, equipped them from limited supplies. In December they returned to the vessel, broken in body and morale. Kane became doctor, nurse, and cook to a shipful of bedridden men. With indomitable courage he planned and then executed their escape. The Advance, still frozen in, was abandoned May 20, 1855. With the loss of one man, the party, carrying the invalids, reached Upernivik, in eighty-three days, a retreat which stands in the annals of Arctic exploration as archetype of victory in defeat.
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