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Arctic Exploration
Series
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Catalog 2010
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Paperback (6x9) $19.95
ISBN 9781582182667
Hardcover (6x9) $34.95
ISBN 978-1-58218-267-4
412 Pages
The Lifeof Dr. eLisha KenT KaneAnd of Other Distinguished American Explorers
Samuel M. Smucker presents the fasci-
nating stories of some of our most distin-
guished and adventurous explorers. Hebegins with Dr. Elisha Kent Kane giv-
ing us brief biographical sketches of his
childhood and early training, moving on
to Kanes adventures in the orient, and
examining the discoveries he made and
the dangers he faced. Finally, we read
about Kanes First and Second Arctic
Expeditions and his ofcial report of the
Second Grinnell Expedition.
The other explorers include:
John Ledyard: From his youth to his voyage around the world with Captain Cook,
as well as with John Charles Fremonts ve expeditions.
Charles Wilkes: His explorations in the southern ocean- Chile, Peru, the Paumoto
Group and Tahiti, plus the discovery of the Antarctic Continent, providing proof
of its existence.
Matthew C.Perry: The historic expedition to Japan, including Commodore Per-
rys interview with the Imperial Commissioners, resulting in the establishment of
trade between East and West.
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arcTic expLoraTions:In Search of Sir John Franklin
Paperback (6x9)
Volume I: $21.95
9781582180489
500 Pages
Arctic Explorations is the rst-hand account
of the search for British naval ofcer Sir JohnFranklin, whose sailing expedition to nd the
Northwest Passage has gone missing.
Volume I begins in 1853 when Dr. Elisha
Kent Kane and his crew of eighteen men
leave New York aboard the Advance. They
hope to rescue Franklins expedition. By Au-
gust of the rst year the Advance is hopeless-
ly trapped by ice, and the mission becomes a
struggle for the rescuers own survival. Kane
and his men face starvation, disease, hostile
wildlife, and temperatures reaching fty de-
grees below zero. Their chances look bleak.
Kane and the crew barely survive to the end
of 1854.
Volume II rejoins the expedition in Januaryof 1855. Most of the crew is ill, and they have
been reduced to tearing apart their trapped
ship for rewood. Food has run low; forcing
them to eat their starving dogs and Kane must
prevent a mutiny that will surely doom their
chances of survival.
After enduring a second brutal winter, it be-comes apparent that the ice will not release
the Advance. Kane and his men set out with
the ships weathered and worn whaling boats
in tow. Their destination is Greenland-thir-
teen hundred miles away across the frozen
sea. The sick and weary crew must brave the
dangers of thin ice, frigid waters and the ap-
proach of a third winter in their desperate at-tempt to return home.
Voume II: $21.95
9781582181292
500 Pages
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seaL isLanDsof aLasKa
Paperback (8.5x11) $19.95
ISBN 1582180482
268 pages
Henry Wood Elliott (1846-1930) was a
renowned naturalist and an accomplished
artist. In 1872, he was sent to the Alaska
territory by the U.S. Treasury department
to report on the fur-seal harvest on the
Pribilof Islands. He lived on one of the
islands and conducted his own study of
the animals. Keenly observant and with
an artists eye, he recorded what he saw inboth his journals and his artwork. Elliott
was appalled by the rapidly declining fur
seal population and the wholesale slaugh-
ter taking place each summer.
The Seal Islands of Alaska is Henry W. Elliotts groundbreaking report as it was
published in 1884. He recommended managed hunting to preserve both the spe-
cies and the industry. He was a tireless wild life advocate and may have savedthe fur seal from extinction.
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our arcTic province
Paperback (6x9) $27.95
ISBN 9781582184586
Hardcover (6x9) $39.95ISBN 9781582184593
604 Pages
Henry W. Elliott presented Our Artic Prov-
ince, his comprehensive book on Alaska, in
1886, two years after the publication of his
groundbreaking report The Seal Islands of
Alaska. Elliotts wide-ranging work reveals
the breathtaking panorama of the ruggedcountry. He details the incredible wildlife,
the native inhabitants, weather, glaciers,
and the effects of man and his settlements
on this amazing territory.
A noted artist and naturalist, he provides us with detailed observations of how
things work in the stark beauty and harsh reality that is the arctic. From its discov-
ery in 1741 by Bering, through its acquisition by the United States in 1867, Elliottobserves and shares the changes, the losses and the new discoveries. Presented as
it was originally published in 1886.
THE VOLCANO OF ILYAMNA: 12,060 FEET
The most prominent Fire Mountain of that Chain forming the North Shore of Cooks Inlet
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our LosT expLorers:The Narrative of the Jeanette Arctic Expedition
Paperback (6x9) $24.95
ISBN 9781582182827
Hardcover (6x9) $39.95
ISBN 9781582182834
492 Pages
Lieutenant George Washington De Long
was an American explorer whose disas-
trous Arctic expedition gave evidence of
a continuous ocean current across the Po-lar Regions. In July of 1879 he set sail
from San Francisco taking the Jeannette
through the Bering Strait and heading for
Wrangel Island, off the northeast coast of
Siberia.
On September 5th, the ship became
trapped in the pack ice near Herald Island(now Gerald Island), east of Wrangel.
With crewman George Melvilles engi-
neering skill, the boat was kept aoat for almost two years until it was nally
crushed on June 12, 1881.
The crew, including De Long, escaped with most of their provisions and three
small boats. Their destination, the Siberian coast, lay some 600 miles away. They
endured extreme hardships for the next two months as they crossed the ice. Afterreaching open water, one of the boats and the men aboard were lost. The remain-
ing two boats became separated. De Longs boat reached the eastern side of the
Lena River delta, Melvilles, reached the western side. Melvilles party was res-
cued, but De Long and his men died of exposure and starvation.
Melville later led an expedition that found the remains of De Long and his party
the following Spring. De Longs journal, in which he made regular entries until
shortly before his death, was found a year later and published as The Voyage of
the Jeannette (1883). Three years after the Jeannette was sunk, wreckage from it
was found on an ice oe on the southwest coast of Greenland, a discovery that
gave new support to the theory of trans-Arctic drift.
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in The Lena DeLTa
Paperback (6x9) $24.95
ISBN 9781582183787
Hardcover (6x9) $39.95
ISBN 9781582183794
517 Pages
Today, this might be called extreme sports.
In 1881, it was called survival. George
Melville was the engineer aboard the sailing
vessel Jeanette when she nally succumbed tothe pack ice off the coast of Siberia in 1881.
The entire crew escaped onto the ice with three
boats and made for the open sea. They became
separated on the water, and only Melvilles
boat reached the relative safety of the western
shore of the Lena River delta. He immediately
recruited an expedition to nd the others. This
is the tale of his harrowing search for survivors, and his tragic discovery on theeastern shore.
THE SEPARATION OF THE BOATS IN THE GALE
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