ALL THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS 



A -p> ^i rp T /^ 



EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES 



DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 



BEING DETAILED ACCOUNTS OF 



THE SEVERAL EXPEDITIONS TO THE NORTH SEAS, 



BOTH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN, CONDUCTED BY 



ROSS, PAKRY, BACK, FRANKLIN, M'CLTTRE AND OTHERS. 



[NCLUDINGTHE FIRST GRINNELL EXPEDITION, 

 FINAL EFFORT OF DR. E. K. KANE 



IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. 



BY SAMUEL M. SMUGKER. 



517 pages 12xno., with Illustrations. Price $1 00. 



Repeated, bold, and daring enterprises have been undertaken during 

 the present century, to explore the hidden recesses of the Northern 

 seas, the vast frozen region of everlasting snow, of stupendous ice- 

 bergs, of hyberborean storms, of the long, cheerless nights of the Arc- 

 tic Zone. To navigate and explore these dismal realms, men of ex- 

 treme daring, of sumblime fortitude, of unconquerable perseverance, 

 were absolutely necessary. And such men possessed one great ele- 

 ment of distinguishing greatness, of which the explorerers of more ge- 

 nial and inviting climes were destitute. Their investigations were 

 made entirely without the prospect of rich reward, and chiefly for the 

 promotion of the magnificent ends of science. The discovery of a 

 north-western passage was indeed not forgotten ; but it must be con- 

 ceded that other less mercenary and more philanthropic motives have 

 given rise to the larger portion of the expeditions which, during the 

 progress of the nineteenth century, have invaded the cheerless soli- 

 tudes of that dangerous and repulsive portion of the globe. 



This work contains a narrative of the chief adventures and discov- 

 eries of Arctic explorers during this century. No expedition of any 

 importance has been omitted ; and the work has been brought down in 

 its details to the present time, so as to include a satisfactory account of 

 the labors, sufferings, and triumphs of that prince of Arctic explorers 

 and philanthropists, Dr. Kane ; whose adventures, and whose able nar- 

 rative of them, entitle him to fadeless celebrity, both as a hero in the 

 field, and as a man of high genius and scholarship. 



The great chapter of Arctic adventure and discovery, may now be 

 considered as closed. A concise and reliable account threfcre, of those 

 adventures and discoveries, with the novel and thrilling incidents at- 

 tending them, cannot be otherwise than interesting in themselves, and ac- 

 ceptable to the public. 



S olJ by all Booksellers Mailed, post-pai I, to any address, upon receipt of price. 



C. M. SAXTON, MII.LBH & Co., Publishers, 



85 Park Koic, Fetf York 



