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Coffee With Jeff #145: Elisha Kent Kane


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Imaging being on a wooden ship for over a year – a wooden ship with limited resources in sub freezing temperatures. You survive, only to do it a second time, and finding yourself trapped in the ice for even longer – over two years. That is the tale of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane.

Show notes and links:

  • Elisha Kane – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
  • Biography – KANE, ELISHA KENT – Volume VIII (1851-1860) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography (biographi.ca)
  • Philly explorer Elisha Kent Kane to be honored at Laurel Hill Cemetery (phillyvoice.com)
  • The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (youtube.com)
  • Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857) (ucalgary.ca)
  • This link has no title (amazon.com)
  • The Life of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane: And Other Distinguished American Explorers – Samuel M. Smucker (google.com.uy)
  • Biography of Elisha Kent Kane – William Elder (google.com)
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