Author: William Elder
Publisher: Philadelphia : Childs & Peterson ; Boston : Phillips, Sampson
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Biography of Elisha Kent Kane
Author: William Elder
Publisher: Philadelphia : Childs & Peterson ; Boston : Phillips, Sampson
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher: Philadelphia : Childs & Peterson ; Boston : Phillips, Sampson
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Memoir and Eulogy of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane
Author: Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the State of New York
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Biography of E. K. Kane
Author: William ELDER (M.D.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
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.
Memoir and Eulogy of Dr. E. K. Kane, pronounced ... before the Grand Lodge of ... Masons in the State of New York ... Together with the opening address by the W. M. Grand Master (J. L. Lewis) and letters received on the occasion, etc
Author: E. W. ANDREWS (of New York.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Eulogy of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Naval Biography, Individual (A-K)
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Contribution to the Bibliography of the History of the United States Navy
Author: Agnes C. Doyle
Publisher: Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Stefansson Collection on the Polar Regions in the Dartmouth College Library
Author: Stefansson Collection
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Polar regions
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Polar regions
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description