Cruise of the Corwin

The Cruise of the Corwin is the story of a voyage John Muir took in 1881 on the steamer Thomas Corwin, which set sail from San Francisco for arctic waters off the coast of Alaska in search of the Jeannette, a ship tragically lost two years before. The Jeannette was never found, but Muir's account of his voyage conveys the excitement of far and little-known horizons. Here we find Muir sketching glaciers and examining rare flora; discovering Wrangell Island off the coast of Siberia and claiming it for the United States; observing seal, walrus, whale, and reindeer; exploring the wind-swept islands of the Bering sea; and investigating a "village of the dead," where whole clans perished of starvation in the unforgiving landscape. Pieced together by Muir's literary executor, William F. Badegrave;, from newspaper correspondence, published scientific articles, and unpublished journals after Muir's death in 1914, The Cruise of the Corwin is a vivid account of the last stretches of the American frontier.Muir, John is the author of 'Cruise of the Corwin' with ISBN 9780871565235 and ISBN 0871565234.