Hayes participated in Charles Hall’s 1854 attempt to reach the North Pole, and contributed a couple of versions of his account before completing this 1860 version, closely following publication of Hayes’s The Open Polar Sea.
An Arctic Boat Journey, in the Autumn of 1854
Hayes, Isaac I. New Edition. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1871.
- 1854 US North Pole Mission of Charles Francis Hall.
- Arctic Reading: United States
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Pictures of Arctic Travel. Greenland.
Hayes, Isaac I. New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1881.
- 1860-61 US North Pole Expedition (aboard United States, commanded by Isaac Hayes).
- Arctic Reading: United States
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Hayes short book consists of three prose pictures: The Doctor; The Savage; Snow and Ice.
The Open Polar Sea: A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole, in the Schooner “United States.”
Hayes, Isaac I. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867.
- 1860-61 US North Pole Expedition (aboard United States, commanded by Isaac Hayes).
- Arctic Reading: United States
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The Open Polar Sea was a prominent but false theory of the nineteenth century that as one approached the highest latitudes the ice would give way to an open sea fed by warm currents which would reach as far as the poles.