Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55

Author: Kane, Elisha Kent (1820-1857)Year: 1857Publisher: Childs & PetersonPlace: Philadelphia Description:2 volumes.[2 ad]+463+[2 ad] pages with frontispiece and two titles, woodcuts, plates and maps; [2 ad]+467 pages with frontispiece and two titles, woodcuts, plates and appendices. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in brown cloth with black labels in gilt lettering to spine, marbled end pages. Later printing, first published in 1856.Elisha Kent Kane, American physician and Arctic explorer who in 1850 led an unsuccessful expedition to northwestern Greenland to search for the British explorer Sir John Franklin, missing since 1845. Educated as a physician, Kane became a naval surgeon in 1843. After the Arctic search for Franklin, he made plans for his own attempt to find Franklin and also to establish whether or not there was an open sea around the North Pole. Leaving New York City on May 31, 1853, he sailed aboard the Advance to northwestern Greenland and entered the sea now called Kane