Dr. Elisha Kent Kane was America's first Arctic explorer. He served as ship's surgeon with the First Grinnell Expedition and as leader of the second Grinnell Ex

Includes biography of Elisha Kent Kane, an arctic explorer who was surgeon on first Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1850-51, and commander o

This is the story of the fames explorer who perhaps was the greatest American hero of the 1850's. In 1850 Kane sailed on the first Grinnell Expedition in search