Name: Arctic Explorations: Volume 2 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration) (en Inglés)
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Arctic Explorations: Volume 2 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Kane

Año

2011

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

496

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

1108041426

ISBN13

9781108041423

N° edición

Categorías

Biografía: aventureros y exploradores

Arctic Explorations: Volume 2 Paperback (Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration) (en Inglés)

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Elisha Kent Kane (1820-57) was a medical officer in the United States Navy, best known for the so-called 'Grinnell voyages' to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin's expedition. Originally published in 1856, this two-volume work documents his second expedition, between 1853 and 1855, during which his ship became ice-bound, and he and his men survived by adopting Inuit survival skills, such as hunting, sledge-driving and hut-building. In Volume 2, Kane continues to describe the Inuit people by whom he was aided, their birth and death rites, their survival skills in times of famine, and their rescuing of his crew. Accompanied by an extensive appendix containing his meteorological and geological surveys of the area, Kane's writings reveal his own controversial personality, his scholarly and navigational abilities, and his admiration of the way in which the Inuits' life was adapted to their environment.