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 ...
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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 trapped in the ice before leading a desperate but heroic retreat that only added to his legend. Kane also enjoyed a secret love affair with a young Canadian-born spiritualist named Maggie Fox, a celebrated spirit rapper deemed unsuitable by his family. How this relationship combined with Kane s tragic early death to deny him his rightful place in history is one of the most dramatic aspects of the book. Race to the Polar Sea tells the story of a romantic adventurer driven by dreams of glory. It is a tale of heroism, courage and conspiracy that evokes an age when the Arctic seemed a white, booming emptiness, beautiful and unknowable."
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Signed and lavishly inscribed on the title page by Ken McGoogan...this copy has a solid tight binding and clean unmarked pages......
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. The Heroic Adventures And Romantic Obsessions Of Elisha Kent Kane. SIGNED by author on title page with light wear. The dust jacket has no tears.
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Very Good + in Very Good +price Clipped jacket. Book Complete number line from 1 to 9; minor edge wear; gift inscription on front end paper; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining.
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Near Fine in near fine jacket. The Heroic Adventures and Romantic Obsessions of Elisha Kent Kane. Recounts the story of Elisha Kent Kane's failed attempt to rescue the Sir John Franklin polar expedition and Kane's relationship with the Canadian spiritualist, Maggie Fox. Signed by author on title page. Illustrated. Two maps. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Illustrated endpapers. "Signed by Author" sticker on front panel of jacket. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 380 pp.
