Kent Kane Elisha Kent KaneElisha Kent Kane (February 3, 1820 – February 16, 1857) was a US Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer. During the Mexican-American War, he served as a special envoy to the US Army and as a surveyor for the US Coast Survey. He routinely discussed is Arctic adventures in front of sizable crowds. The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: A Personal Narrative and Arctic adventures and The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853,'54,'55 were two books he wrote on his explorations and released in 1856 and 1857, respectively. Read More Read Less