Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, Complete in Two Volumes

by Kane, Elisha Kent

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Childs & Peterson. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1856. Hard Cover. Dark brown embossed boards.. Frayed and chipped at top, bottom of spine area and at tips of corners. Corners bumped, rounded as well. Dark brown endpapers. Light foxing. Name/location in ink on endpaper. Pencil notations on rear endpaper. Interior pp age-darkened as expected. Illustrated with upwards of three hundred engravings from sketches by the author. The steel plates executed under the superintendence of J. M. Butler. The wood engravings by Van Ingen & Snyder. With tipped in fold out map. Please ask for extra pictures. Vol. 1 & 2 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Arctic Explorations: In Search of John Franklin is the first-hand account of the search for British naval officer Sir John Franklin, whose sailing expedition to find the Northwest Passage has gone missing. Volume I begins in 1853 when Dr. Elisha Kent Kane and his crew of eighteen men leave New York aboard the Advance. They hope to rescue Franklin's expedition. By August of the first year the Advance is hopelessly trapped by ice, and the mission becomes a struggle for the rescuers own survival. Kane and his men face starvation, disease, hostile wildlife, and temperatures reaching fifty degrees below zero. Their chances look bleak. Kane and the crew barely survive to the end of 1854. Volume II rejoins the expedition in January of 1855. Most of the crew is ill, and they have been reduced to tearing apart their trapped ship for firewood. Food has run low; forcing them to eat their starving dogs and Kane must prevent a mutiny that will surely doom their chances of survival. After enduring a second brutal winter, it becomes apparent that the ice will not release the Advance. Kane and his men set out with the ship's weathered and worn whaling boats in tow. Their destination is Greenland-thirteen hundred miles away across the frozen sea. The sick and weary crew must brave the dangers of thin ice, frigid waters and the approach of a third winter in their desperate attempt to return home. .

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