Buch, Englisch, 586 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 816 g
Buch, Englisch, 586 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 816 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
ISBN: 978-1-108-07487-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Dr Elisha Kane (1820–57), the most famous of American Arctic explorers before Peary, published this work in 1853. Having graduated from medical school, Kane joined the US Navy in 1843, and in 1850 was appointed senior medical officer on the expedition financed by the philanthropist Henry Grinnell to search for Sir John Franklin. Kane had departed on a second expedition while this book was in press, and he continued his Arctic travels, to the detriment of his health, until the year before his early death. In this work, Kane describes the origins of the expedition in the worldwide appeal by Lady Franklin, and, using his own journals, gives a vivid account of a winter spent icebound in the Arctic. Among the appendices is the official report of the expedition's commander, Lieutenant De Haven. Though Franklin's first winter camp was found, there were no further traces of his crew.
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Note; 1. Introductory; 2. Preparations for departure; 3. Departure from New York; 4. Davis's Straits; 5. Whale-fish islands; 6. Boat party to Lievely; 7. The middle ice; 8. Formation of icebergs; 9. Svartehuk; 10. Jumping-off place; 11. Navigation of the pack; 12. Devil's Thumb; 13. The ice; 14. Melville Bay; 15. Opposite Duneira Bay; 16. Bear hunt; 17. Refraction; 18. The crimson cliffs of Beverly; 19. Arctic highlands; 20. Entering Lancaster Sound; 21. Visit to the encampment; 22. United searching squadrons; 23. Wellington Channel; 24. Wellington Channel (cont.); 25. Grinnell Land; 26. In the ice of Wellington Channel; 27. Wellington Channel (cont.); 28. Drifting about outlet of channel; 29. Continued drift; 30. The cold; 31. Continued drift (cont.); 32. Continued drift (cont.); 33. Continued drift (cont.); 34. Continued drift (cont.); 35. Meteors; 36. The Rescue in her ice dock; 37. Snow drifts; 38. April; 39. House-cleaning; 40. Trying to cut out; 41. Cape Walsingham; 42. The ice (cont.); 43. June; 44. Our floe; 45. fantastic forms of ice; 46. Pröven; 47. Uppernavik; 48. The Arctic glaciers; 49. March and collision of the bergs; 50. Uppernavik (cont.); Appendix.
