Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity
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Exploring Other Worlds tells the intertwined stories of the Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane and the spiritualist medium Margaret Fox and examines their unlikely relationship. Kane, from a prominent Philadelphia family, became one of the most renowned and honored explorers of the antebellum era. Fox grew up in rural upstate New York and, as one of the Fox Sisters, became a famed and somewhat notorious "spirit raper" whose strange "knocks" were...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:155849457X
ISBN13:9781558494572
Release Date:July 2005
Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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