The Open Polar Sea: A narrative of a voyage of discovery towards the North pole, in the schooner "United States"

· 1881

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

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