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The Open Polar Sea - A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole, in the Schooner United States (Paperback)
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The Open Polar Sea - A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole, in the Schooner United States (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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The Open Polar Sea was one of the most prevalent myths of
nineteenth-century Arctic exploration. Several explorers had
hypothesised a stretch of ice-free sea between Greenland and the
North Pole, and several expeditions set out in search of it. One of
these was planned and led by Isaac Israel Hayes (1832-81), an
American physician and explorer. This account of the expedition,
first published in 1866, was compiled from his journals. Having
left Boston in a small schooner so overloaded with equipment that a
passenger could lean over the deck rail and touch the sea, Hayes
and his crew almost faced shipwreck off Nova Scotia and regularly
saw their cabins flooded on their way to Greenland, where, in
calmer weather, they encountered the first palatial ice floes.
Written for the general reader rather than for scientific purposes,
this book still serves as an accessible, entertaining guide to the
voyage.
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