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.
Dr. Kane's Voyage to the Polar Lands
Author: Oscar M. Villarejo
Publisher: Anniversary Collection
ISBN: 9781512822571
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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: Anniversary Collection
ISBN: 9781512822571
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Based on a narrative manuscript of Johan Carl Christian Petersen, a member of Elisha Kent Kane's expedition to Greenland, 1853-55.
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.
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.
Civic Discipline
Author: Karen M. Morin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317165675
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The American Geographical Society was the pre-eminent geographical society in the nineteenth-century U.S. This book explores how geographical knowledge and practices took shape as a civic enterprise, under the leadership of Charles P. Daly, AGS president for 35 years (1864-1899). The ideals and programmatic interests of the AGS link to broad institutional, societal, and spatial contexts that drove interest in geography itself in the post-Civil War period, and also link to Charles Daly's personal role as New York civic leader, scholar, revered New York judge, and especially, popularizer of geography. Daly's leadership in a number of civic and social reform causes resonated closely with his work as geographer, such as his influence in tenement housing and street sanitation reform in New York City. Others of his projects served commercial interests, including in American railroad development and colonization of the African Congo. Daly was also New York's most influential access point to the Arctic in the latter nineteenth century. Through telling the story of the nineteenth-century AGS and Charles Daly, this book provides a critical appraisal of the role of particular actors, institutions, and practices involved in the development and promotion of geography in the mid-nineteenth century U.S. that is long overdue.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317165675
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The American Geographical Society was the pre-eminent geographical society in the nineteenth-century U.S. This book explores how geographical knowledge and practices took shape as a civic enterprise, under the leadership of Charles P. Daly, AGS president for 35 years (1864-1899). The ideals and programmatic interests of the AGS link to broad institutional, societal, and spatial contexts that drove interest in geography itself in the post-Civil War period, and also link to Charles Daly's personal role as New York civic leader, scholar, revered New York judge, and especially, popularizer of geography. Daly's leadership in a number of civic and social reform causes resonated closely with his work as geographer, such as his influence in tenement housing and street sanitation reform in New York City. Others of his projects served commercial interests, including in American railroad development and colonization of the African Congo. Daly was also New York's most influential access point to the Arctic in the latter nineteenth century. Through telling the story of the nineteenth-century AGS and Charles Daly, this book provides a critical appraisal of the role of particular actors, institutions, and practices involved in the development and promotion of geography in the mid-nineteenth century U.S. that is long overdue.
The Athenaeum
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1568
Book Description
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1568
Book Description
Doctor Kane of the Arctic Seas
Author: George Washington Corner
Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Biography of Elisha Kent Kane (1820-57), surgeon on the first Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1850-51, and commander of the second Grinnell expedition, 1853-55.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Biography of Elisha Kent Kane (1820-57), surgeon on the first Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1850-51, and commander of the second Grinnell expedition, 1853-55.
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
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
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
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Littell's Living Age
Author: Eliakim Littell
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description