DSI Arctic Explorations Catalog 2010

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Arctic Exploration

Series

Digital Scanning Inc.

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


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


ISBN 9781582182827


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


ISBN 9781582183787


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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