Smucker, Samuel M.

Life of Elisha Kent Kane and Other Distinguished American Explorers.

Philadelphia: G. G. Evans, 1859. Hardcover. 406pp, frontispiece portrait. Section on Charles Wilkes. Orig. brown blind & gilt stamped cloth, slt. faded, good+. Usually found only in poor condition, this is quite a nice copy. Includes biographies of: John Charles Fremont; Elisha Kent Kane; John Ledyard (the only American to travel to the South Seas with Capt. Cook), Matthew C. Perry; Charles Wilkes; et. al. Explorations in the Arctic & Antarctic, Japan, New Zealand, North Pole, Peru, Siberia, South America, Tahiti and the American West. Item #10210

Price: $65.00