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Article: Race to the Polar Sea: the Heroic Adventures of Elisha Kent Kane.(Book review)
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- June 1, 2009
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RACE TO THE POLAR SEA: THE HEROIC ADVENTURES OF ELISHA KENT KANE. By KEN McGOOGAN. Berkeley, California: Counterpoint Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-58243-440-7. xii + 381 p., maps, b&w illus., selected bib., index. Hardbound. US$26.00.
Born in Philadelphia on 3 February 1820, Elisha Kent Kane died in Havana, Cuba, on 16 February 1857, at the young age of 37. From about 1835 onwards, he suffered repeatedly from rheumatic fever and heart disease, but he refused to allow his health problems to constrain his activities. After initially studying geology at the University of Virginia, he switched in 1840 to medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in ...