1857 The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: A Personal Narrative

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Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

New edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a folding map, five plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed account of Grinnell expedition of 1850, the first American effort, financed by Henry Grinnell, to determine the fate of the lost Franklin Northwest Passage expedition. Led by Lieutenant Edwin De Haven, the team explored the accessible areas along Franklin's proposed route. Being the search for Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin, a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator following his attempt to traverse the Northwest Passage in 1845, where his ships became icebound off King William Island. Written by Elisha Kent Kane, a United States Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer. He was senior medical officer in the First Grinnell expedition and was credited with the discovery of an encampment and gravesite from Franklin's lost expedition on Beechey Island.