Description: Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition, Kane, 1856-57, 1st edition, 2 Volumes 2 volumes. 434; 467 pp. Illustrated with 22 steel-engraved plates including frontispieces and additional engraved title pages. **Volume one is missing the last chapter.** Please see photos for condition. The books are readable and binding seems to have been mended at one point. The search for the remains of the polar expedition of Sir John Franklin was to lead to far greater information on the Arctic than could have been gleaned from the original expedition, even if it had been successful in navigating the Northwest Passage. The series of fine steel-engraved plates shows a captivating variety of Arctic scenes. Arctic Bib. 8373. Sir John Franklin KCH FRS FLS FRGS (16 April 1786 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. After serving in wars against Napoleonic France and the United States, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic, in 1819 and 1825, and served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1839 to 1843. During his third and final expedition to force the Northwest Passage in 1845, Franklin's ships became icebound off King William Island in what is now Nunavut, where he died in June 1847. The icebound ships were abandoned ten months later and the entire crew died, from causes such as starvation, hypothermia, and scurvy.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Half-Calf and Cloth Board
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Region: Arctic
Author: Elisha Kent Kane
Publisher: Childs & Peterson
Topic: Arctic
Subject: Exploration & Travel
Year Printed: 1856
Original/Facsimile: Original
