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The U.S. Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. A personal narrative

Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 · 1854 · New York, Harper & Brothers · 3 pictures

A personal narrative of the 1853 U.S. Grinnell expedition searching for Sir John Franklin, written by American naval surgeon Elisha Kent Kane and published in New York by Harper & Brothers in 1854 for a general reader. The three plates are rotated on the page and show Arctic ice and ship scenes, with one tinted wood engraving of an ice mass at sea; a designer could draw on their stark, monochrome polar light and the broken, floating ice forms.

Franklin, John, 1786-1847 · Grinnell Expedition

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