Journey

The Open Polar Sea

by I. I. Hayes

Isaac Israel Hayes’s account follows an Arctic voyage aboard the schooner United States through ice and Greenland. The crew hoped to find an open sea in the far north. Its map shows both the expedition’s route and the limits of what its travellers knew.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 9 hr 5 min

Where to find it

The Map Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #66063. In the public domain in the United States.