The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. A Personal Narrative.

By Elisha Kent Kane. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854
Captain Sir John Franklin, in search of a Northwest Passage through the Arctic from the Atlantic to the Pacific, set sail in 1845 and was never heard from again. The disappearance of his two ships — the rather ominously named H.M.S. Erebus and H.M.S. Terror — with over 100 officers and crew prompted numerous expeditions to search for and, it was hoped, rescue his party. Elisha Kane, a physician serving in the U.S. Navy, was appointed senior medical officer on the First Grinnell Expedition that set off in search of Franklin in 1850-1851.
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