Elisha Kent Kane and the seafaring frontier

Library of American Biography

by Jeannette Mirsky

Dust jacket design by Edward A. Karr. Edited By Oscar Handlin. The story of the physician, naval officer and national hero, who was one of the first American pioneers for the Far North. In the seven years from 1850 to 1857, he was on the two Grinnell Expeditions to the Arctic.

201 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1954

About the author

Jeannette Mirsky Ginsburg was an American author who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1947 for her biographical writings on the history of exploration.