Author: Oscar M. Villarejo
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Based on a narrative manuscript of Johan Carl Christian Petersen, a member of Elisha Kent Kane's expedition to Greenland, 1853-55.
Dr. Kane's Voyage to the Polar Lands
Author: Oscar M. Villarejo
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Based on a narrative manuscript of Johan Carl Christian Petersen, a member of Elisha Kent Kane's expedition to Greenland, 1853-55.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Based on a narrative manuscript of Johan Carl Christian Petersen, a member of Elisha Kent Kane's expedition to Greenland, 1853-55.
Muskox Land
Author: Lyle Dick
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 1552380505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration.
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 1552380505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration.
Raising Kane
Author: Mark Metzler Sawin
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871693860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Here is the cultural biography of Elisha Kane, a sickly physician, who transformed himself into an internationally celebrated Arctic explorer and author before his untimely death in 1857. This book is an important reinterpretation of the life of a prototypically American figure. Following Kane’s exploits from the Mexican War through his arctic adventures and ill-fated romance with the Spiritualist medium Margaret Fox, author Sawin ties this Kane into the main currents of mid-19th cent. popular culture, opening a new vista on the meanings of masculinity, celebrity, and heroism. This is an exhaustive research work into the life and accomplishments of a remarkable adventurer, and a sociological analysis of popular perceptions of Kane’s work and feats. Illus.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0871693860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Here is the cultural biography of Elisha Kane, a sickly physician, who transformed himself into an internationally celebrated Arctic explorer and author before his untimely death in 1857. This book is an important reinterpretation of the life of a prototypically American figure. Following Kane’s exploits from the Mexican War through his arctic adventures and ill-fated romance with the Spiritualist medium Margaret Fox, author Sawin ties this Kane into the main currents of mid-19th cent. popular culture, opening a new vista on the meanings of masculinity, celebrity, and heroism. This is an exhaustive research work into the life and accomplishments of a remarkable adventurer, and a sociological analysis of popular perceptions of Kane’s work and feats. Illus.
Catalogue of the Young Mens's Christian Association Library ... Meriden, Conn
Author: Young Men's Christian Associations. Meriden, Conn. Library
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The Open Polar Sea: a Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole, in the Schooner “United States.” With Illustrations
Author: Isaac Israel HAYES
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Littell's Living Age
Author: Eliakim Littell
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Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic Regions
Author: Charles Tomlinson
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Living Age
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
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Littell's Living Age
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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