By Michael F. Robinson
Within the overdue 1800s, “Arctic Fever” swept around the kingdom as dozens of yankee expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to discover a sea path to Asia and, eventually, to face on the North Pole. Few of those missions have been profitable, and plenty of males misplaced their lives en path. but failure did little to hose down the passion of latest explorers or the crowds at domestic that cheered them on. Arctic exploration, Michael F. Robinson argues, was once an task that opened up in the US up to it did within the wintry hinterland. Paying specific recognition to the perils dealing with explorers at domestic, The Coldest Crucible examines their struggles to construct aid for the expeditions prior to departure, shield their claims upon their go back, and solid themselves as males useful of the nation’s complete realization. In so doing, this e-book paints a brand new portrait of polar voyagers, one who eliminates them from the icy backdrop of the Arctic and units them in the tempests of yankee cultural life. With chronological chapters that includes emblematic Arctic explorers—including Elisha Kent Kane, Charles corridor, and Robert Peary—The Coldest Crucible unearths why the North Pole, a quarter so geographically faraway from americans, turned an iconic vacation spot for discovery. (20061222)
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Symmes’s ideas also inspired the American journalist Jeremiah Reynolds, who took up his theory in lectures and in print. S. Exploring Expedition. Through it all, America’s new interest in the Arctic carried with it an old interest in Europe’s good opinion. 16 As talk of an American exploration of the South Pole intensified, the subject soon entered American fiction. Symzonia (1820), published under the pen name Captain Adam Seaborne, told the story of such an expedition and passage into the earth’s interior.
Later he had to put down a desertion by two other crewmen, attempting to shoot one who sought to return to the ship. In the summer of 1855, Kane himself finally acknowledged the necessity of abandoning Advance and led his party south in whaleboats. After a harrowing journey during which one man died, Kane and his men dragged the whaleboats for miles over pack ice and into the dangerous waters of Melville Bay. 19 When Kane had not returned in 1854, his patrons and admirers had grown worried. Calls for a federal rescue expedition had come from Grinnell and from various scientific societies.
He also noted evidence of a milder climate to the north. ’’7 Kane argued that Franklin may have sailed into this open sea and become stranded there. He laid out his arguments in a letter published in the New York Tribune. The graves at Beechey Island made clear that Franklin had camped there in 1846. Valuable articles left at the camp, such as the cashmere gloves, suggested that his party had left the camp in haste. Perhaps the ice in Wellington Channel had broken up suddenly, Kane ventured, and Franklin had abandoned his camp in order to take advantage of the open passage.