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The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of de Long and the Jeannette

By John Muir

Book information

Publisher
West Margin Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781941821367, 9781941821114, 9781941821480, 2014017815
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1548788 bytes)
Series
The Literary Naturalist
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-01-07 22:52:42
History; Nonfiction; HIS036140; HIS037060

Description

"John Muir was certainly as concerned for the potential loss of marvelous arctic cultures as he was for our continent's vanishing wilderness. In this sense, THE CRUISE OF THE CORWIN truly deserves our attention, especially in light of all that is happening in the Arctic today." –Richard Fleck John Muir agreed in 1881 to sail aboard the Corwin, whose fruitless mission it was to search for the missing scientific research vessel USS Jeannette, which itself became icebound while exploring the distant and mysterious Wrangell Land in the higher latitudes of the Arctic. This cruise would afford Muir the opportunity to examine evidence of glaciation along the arctic coastlines of Siberia and Alaska and the harmonious lifestyle of Inuits and Chukchis, which was in the midst of disruption from the intrusions of the South.

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