Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane

Name: Race to the Polar Sea: The Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane
Price: 19.35 USD
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ISBN: 9780002007764

ISBN-10: 0002007762

ISBN-13: 9780002007764

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ken McGoogan

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Elisha Kent Kane, scion of a wealthy and influential Philadelphia family, became a legend of 19th-century America. Before he was 30, he had descended into a volcano in the Philippines, infiltrated a company of slave traders in West Africa and narrowly survived hand-to-hand combat in the Sierra Madre while carrying a secret message from the president of the United States. Yet Kane would achieve his greatest fame by exploring the High Arctic, an adventure that began when he sailed in search of the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin and the open water of an alleged ?polar sea? around the North Pole. In the mid-1850s, Kane pushed farther north than any other voyager, then spent two years…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Renouf Pub Co Ltd
Binding: Cloth Text
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English