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Article: Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity.(Book Review)
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- September 1, 2005
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EXPLORING OTHER WORLDS: MARGARET FOX, ELISHA KENT KANE, AND THE ANTEBELLUM CULTURE OF CURIOSITY. By DAVID CHAPIN. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. 257 p., 2 maps. 16 b & w illus., notes, index. Hardbound, US$80.00; Softbound, US$24.95.
The strange story of Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane's affair with Margaret Fox has been told before, most recently in George Washington Corner's Doctor Kane of the Arctic Seas, but not with the detail that David Chapin lavishes on it in Exploring Other Worlds.
Now forgotten except by Arctic exploration buffs, Kane was famous in the mid-19th century. Born into privilege in Philadelphia, but also a ...