The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin - A Personal Narrative - Elisha Kent Kane - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press -

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Dr Elisha Kane (1820–57) published this vivid account of an icebound polar winter in 1853. The Grinnell expedition was not successful in its aim of ascertaining the fate of Sir John Franklin, and Kane led a second attempt in 1853 while this book was in press.