(The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir Jo...)
The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin A Personal Narrative by Elisha Kent Kane. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1857 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
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(Fascination account of early Arctic exploration.)
Fascination account of early Arctic exploration.
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Kane was born on February 28, 1820, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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 general Thomas L. Kane.
Kane was educated at the universities of Virginia and Pennsylvania, graduating with a degree in medicine from the latter institution in 1842, and received an appointment as assistant surgeon in the United States Navy.
In 1850 Kane was attached to the United States Coast Survey, serving as senior medical officer on the De Haven expedition sent in search of Sir John Franklin, missing in the Arctic regions since 1845. Kane's account of the fruitless search was published in 1853 as The U. S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. Believing in the existence of an open polar sea, Kane shortly afterward equipped a second Arctic expedition, which sailed in the spring of 1853 in the brig Advance. It passed through Smith Sound at the head of Baffin Bay and reached unknown waters, now called Kane Basin, where the expedition wintered, enduring months of suffering from want of food and fuel and resulting scurvy. Exploration parties by sledge reached Ellesmere Island and Cape Constitution and discovered Kennedy Channel, which later became the American route to the North Pole, taken by Isaac Hayes, Charles F. Hall, C. W. Greely, and Robert E. Peary. Kane also made valuable scientific observations in the area, including studies of animal and Eskimo (Inuit) life and meteorological, geological, astronomical, tidal, botanical, and glacial surveys. Kane and his men abandoned the vessel in the pack ice in May 1855 and the party made the long overland journey through 1, 200 miles (1, 900 km) of broken ice and water in 83 days to the Danish settlement at Upernavik, Greenland. A relief expedition landed them in New York in October, where they were enthusiastically honored. Kane's account of the expedition, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition (2 vols. , 1856), became a best-seller. His health, however, which had never been good, was broken. In the same year he visited England, going from there to Havana, Cuba, where he died on February 16, 1857.
(The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir Jo...)
(Fascination account of early Arctic exploration.)
Member of the American Antiquarian Society (1855)
In 1852, Kane met the Fox sisters, famous for their spirit rapping séances, and he became enamored with the middle sister, Margaret. Kane was convinced that the sisters were frauds, and sought to reform Margaret. She would later claim that they were secretly married in 1856 - she changed her name to Margaret Fox Kane - and engaged the family in lawsuits over his will.
He was an American politician, attorney and jurist.
He was an American attorney, abolitionist, and military officer who was influential in the western migration of the Latter-day Saint movement and served as a Union Army colonel and general of volunteers in the American Civil War.
