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Raising Kane : Elisha Kent Kane and the culture of fame in antebellum America
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Raising Kane : Elisha Kent Kane and the culture of fame in antebellum America / Mark Metzler Sawin.
ISBN
9781606189832 (pbk.)
1606189832
Published
Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, c2008.
Physical Description
x, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 31, 2010
Series
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge, v. 98, pt. 3
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Heroic desire: Elisha Kent Kane the man
The creation of Dr. Kane
Rapping spirits, Maggie Fox, and the love life of Dr. Kane
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
The cold reality of fame: the second Grindell expedition
A man divided: the two lives of Elisha Kent Kane
The death and life of Dr. Kane.
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