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Klappentext Dr Elisha Kane, medical officer on the first Grinnell expedition, published this account of an icebound polar winter in 1853. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note; 1. Introductory; 2. Preparations for departure; 3. Departure from New York; 4. Davis's Straits; 5. Whale-fish islands; 6. Boat party to Lievely; 7. The middle ice; 8. Formation of icebergs; 9. Svartehuk; 10. Jumping-off place; 11. Navigation of the pack; 12. Devil's Thumb; 13. The ice; 14. Melville Bay; 15. Opposite Duneira Bay; 16. Bear hunt; 17. Refraction; 18. The crimson cliffs of Beverly; 19. Arctic highlands; 20. Entering Lancaster Sound; 21. Visit to the encampment; 22. United searching squadrons; 23. Wellington Channel; 24. Wellington Channel (cont.); 25. Grinnell Land; 26. In the ice of Wellington Channel; 27. Wellington Channel (cont.); 28. Drifting about outlet of channel; 29. Continued drift; 30. The cold; 31. Continued drift (cont.); 32. Continued drift (cont.); 33. Continued drift (cont.); 34. Continued drift (cont.); 35. Meteors; 36. The Rescue in her ice dock; 37. Snow drifts; 38. April; 39. House-cleaning; 40. Trying to cut out; 41. Cape Walsingham; 42. The ice (cont.); 43. June; 44. Our floe; 45. fantastic forms of ice; 46. Pröven; 47. Uppernavik; 48. The Arctic glaciers; 49. March and collision of the bergs; 50. Uppernavik (cont.); Appendix.
