Author: Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871693860
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Author: Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871693860
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Raising Kane
Author: Mark Metzler SawinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library and Collection of Autograph Letters, Papers, and Documents
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Large & Valuable Collection of Autograph Letters Belonging to William H. Fry, Esq. of Harrisburg, Pa ...
Author: William H. FryThe Love-life of Dr. Kane
Author: Elisha Kent KanePublisher: New York : Carleton
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Dr. Elisha Kent Kane was America's first Arctic explorer. He served as ship's surgeon with the First Grinnell Expedition and as leader of the second Grinnell Expedition in search of John Franklin. After his death, spiritualist Margaret Fox claimed that she was Kane's common-law wife, but his family refused to grant her a widow's annuity. Five years later she filed a lawsuit, and both parties reached an agreement: an annuity for Fox in exchange for Kane's correspondence with her. Charging that the Kanes had not kept their word, she published this volume anonymously.
A Guide to the Manuscripts in the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library
Author: Eleutherian Mills Historical LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
"The Eleutherian Mills Historical Library of Greenville, Delaware, collects a broad spectrum of research materials to explain the contributions of the Middle Atlantic states to American economic, business, industrial, and technological history"--Fore.
A Guide to Modern Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library: Summaries of holdings by author
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Annals of Medical History
Author: A Great and Rising Nation
Author: Michael A. VerneyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226819922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Jeremiah Reynolds and the empire of knowledge -- The United States exploring expedition as Jacksonian capitalism -- The United States exploring expedition in popular culture -- The Dead Sea expedition and the empire of faith -- Proslavery explorations of South America -- Arctic exploration and US-UK rapprochement.
Race to the Polar Sea
Author: Ken McGooganPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1582439109
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In the mid–1800s, geographers revived the ancient idea that at the top of the world, encircling the North Pole, lay a temperate "Open Polar Sea." Without doubt, the voyager who discovered this balmy basin would etch his name forever in the annals of exploration. Among those drawn to the challenge was Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, a handsome, charismatic figure from a leading Philadelphia family who was already a well–known adventurer and explorer. In 1853, Kane sailed to the Arctic to seek both the Open Polar Sea and the lost British explorer John Franklin. After sailing farther north than anyone yet, Kane and his men became trapped in the ice. Besides treacherous icebergs and violent currents, Kane battled starvation, disease, and a near mutiny before abandoning ship to lead a desperate escape in sleds and small boats. Race to the Polar Sea tells this story in heart–pounding detail. Drawing on documents never before seen, author Ken McGoogan brings to life a heroic figure famous in his day as America's greatest explorer and celebrates a shining example of American courage and survival.