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Record #169086:
Exploring other worlds. Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the antebellum culture of curiosity / David Chapin.
Title: | Exploring other worlds. Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the antebellum culture of curiosity / David Chapin. |
Author(s): | Chapin, David. |
Date: | 2004. |
Publisher: | Amherst, USA: University of Massachusetts Press |
Abstract: | Story of two people, explorer and medium, whose lives became bound up in antebellum culture of curiosity. Kane had been on Grinnell Expedition searching for Franklin and researching at same time, becoming member of American Philosophical Society and lecturing on Arctic. |
Keywords: | 1 -- Philosophy. 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1850-51 DeHaven. 92 -- Biographies: Kane, Elisha. W -- Expeditions and exploration. (*3) -- Arctic regions. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*3) : 91(08)[1850-51] |
ISBN: | 1558494480 |
SPRI record no.: | 169086 |
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