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Despite the fact that his previous trip to the Arctic had left him
gravely ill and with a permanently injured foot, the explorer and
physician Isaac Israel Hayes (1832 81) immediately proclaimed his
desire to return north. In 1869, aboard the steamer Panther, he was
granted his wish. The trip was financed by the artist William
Bradford (1823 92), who planned to use it as an opportunity to
paint and photograph Greenland. First published in 1871, this
account gives the reader the opportunity to survey the landscape,
touching also on the history of polar exploration. It is
illustrated with a number of engravings. Also reissued in the
Cambridge Library Collection are An Arctic Boat-Journey in the
Autumn of 1854 (1860), Hayes's account of a gruelling episode
during the ill-fated second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir
John Franklin, and The Open Polar Sea (1867)."
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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artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Title: The Open Polar Sea: a narrative of a voyage of discovery
towards the North Pole, in the Schooner "United States." With
illustrations.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal
narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian
travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel
guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the
Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The
below data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Hayes, Isaac Israel; 1867. 8 . 10460.pp.3.
Title: The Land of Desolation, being a personal narrative of
adventures in Greenland. With illustrations.]Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This
collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and
documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also
included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of
trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and
the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Hayes, Isaac Israel;
1871. 8 . 10460.pp.5.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
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selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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