Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity.(Book Review)

Arctic | September 1, 2005| | Copyright

EXPLORING OTHER WORLDS: MARGARET FOX, ELISHA KENT KANE, AND THE ANTEBELLUM CULTURE OF CURIOSITY. By DAVID CHAPIN. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. 257 p., 2 maps. 16 b & w illus., notes, index. Hardbound, US$80.00; Softbound, US$24.95.

The strange story of Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane's affair with Margaret Fox has been told before, most recently in George Washington Corner's Doctor Kane of the Arctic Seas, but not with the detail that David Chapin lavishes on it in Exploring Other Worlds.

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