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An Arctic Boat Journey
Isaac I. Hayes
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After the expedition of Sir John Franklin went missing in the
Arctic, a series of search missions were sent out in an attempt to
discover its fate. Two of these were funded by, and named after,
the American shipping magnate Henry Grinnell (1799 1874), the
second of which was launched in 1853. With the brig Advance trapped
in ice off the coast of northern Greenland, the expedition's
surgeon Isaac Israel Hayes (1832 81) set out in August 1854 with a
party of men towards Upernavik. This 1860 publication traces nearly
four months spent struggling against horrendous Arctic conditions.
Also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection are The Open
Polar Sea (1867) and The Land of Desolation (1871), Hayes's account
of a more leisurely cruise along the coast of Greenland. Also
available is Arctic Explorations (1856), a two-volume account of
the second Grinnell expedition by its leader, Elisha Kent Kane
(1820 57)."
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