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Arctic Explorations: Volume 2 - The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55 (Paperback)
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Arctic Explorations: Volume 2 - The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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Elisha Kent Kane (1820-57) was a medical officer in the United
States Navy, best known for the so-called 'Grinnell voyages' to the
Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin's expedition. Originally
published in 1856, this two-volume work documents his second
expedition, between 1853 and 1855, during which his ship became
ice-bound, and he and his men survived by adopting Inuit survival
skills, such as hunting, sledge-driving and hut-building. In Volume
2, Kane continues to describe the Inuit people by whom he was
aided, their birth and death rites, their survival skills in times
of famine, and their rescuing of his crew. Accompanied by an
extensive appendix containing his meteorological and geological
surveys of the area, Kane's writings reveal his own controversial
personality, his scholarly and navigational abilities, and his
admiration of the way in which the Inuits' life was adapted to
their environment.
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