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A first-person narrative of a polar voyage that interweaves shipboard experience and arduous sledge journeys with vivid descriptions of ice, light, and Arctic landscapes. The account chronicles navigational and environmental challenges while summarizing observations on polar oceanography, meteorology, magnetism, and natural history. Descriptive passages alternate with concise, diary-derived reportage and references to maps, charts, and specimen collections, conveying both the practical hardships of exploration and the physical forces that shape the polar environment, all presented for a general reader rather than as a technical scientific treatise.

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Title: The Open Polar Sea

Author: I. I. Hayes

Release date: August 14, 2021 [eBook #66063]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OPEN POLAR SEA ***

THE OPEN POLAR SEA:

A

NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
TOWARDS THE NORTH POLE,

IN THE

SCHOONER "UNITED STATES."

BY

Dr. I. I. HAYES.

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON,
1867.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by

I. I. Hayes,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

I HAD INTENDED TO DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO

WILLIAM PARKER FOULKE,
Of Philadelphia,

To whom I am indebted
for all that a powerful intellect and
a generous friendship could do, to give practical
shape to my plans, and to insure success to an enterprise
in which I had embarked, with the simple advantage of an aim,
and with no better guide than the impulse of youth: but
since it is denied me to pay that tribute of my
admiration to one of the noblest of men,
I now inscribe it to his

MEMORY.