This account by three American authors of one thousand years of
exploration in the Arctic regions, culminating in the voyage and
loss of the U.S.S. Polaris in 1872, was published in 1874. The
work, which is derived from many earlier published accounts, begins
with a short and highly sentimental biography of the famous
American explorer Elisha Kane (whose own works are reissued in this
series). It continues with the geography of the Arctic regions, and
the voyages of the Vikings and early modern explorers, describing
the activities of the whaling fleets as well as the oceanographic
and scientific researches of the naval expeditions from many
countries seeking the North-West Passage. This is a useful and
readable synthesis, which ends with a stirring appeal to the
British Admiralty to resume the work of polar exploration which had
gone into decline after the end of the official search for Sir John
Franklin.
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