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John Muir agreed in 1881 to sail aboard the Corwin, whose fruitless mission it was to search for the missing scientific research vessel Jeannette, which itself became icebound while exploring the distant and mysterious Wrangell Land in the higher latitudes of the Arctic. This... Read Full Overview

Journals of John Muir's Adventure on the Corwin To Alaska And The Arctic

This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir's 1917 The Cruise Of The Corwin recounts John Muir's 1881 adventure on the sailing ship Corwin along the shores of Alaska... Read Full Overview

William Frederic Bad (January 22, 1871 - March 4, 1936), perhaps best known as the literary executor and biographer of John Muir, was a versatile scholar of wide interests. As an archaeologist, he led the excavation of Tell en-Nasbeh in Palestine, now believed on the basis of... Read Full Overview

William Frederic Bade (January 22, 1871 - March 4, 1936), perhaps best known as the literary executor and biographer of John Muir, was a versatile scholar of wide interests. As an archaeologist, he led the excavation of Tell en-Nasbeh in Palestine, now believed on the basis of... Read Full Overview

On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeanette departed San Francisco for the Bering Strait with the intention of finding a route to the North Pole. With the ship crushed by the pressure of the ice, its captain, George W. De Long, and twenty of its crew never made it back to America. The... Read Full Overview

Journals of John Muir's Adventure on the Corwin To Alaska And The Arctic

This deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir's 1917 The Cruise Of The Corwin recounts John Muir's 1881 adventure on the sailing ship Corwin along the shores of Alaska... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

In the spring of 1881, the steamship Thomas Corwin began a daring voyage of 15,000 nautical miles into treacherous Arctic seas to search for captain G. W. De Long and his ship Jeannette, which had left San Francisco two years earlier to drift across the North Pole while trapped... Read Full Overview

""The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette"" is a non-fiction book written by John Muir. The book chronicles Muir's experiences during a voyage aboard the USS Corwin in the Arctic region in 1881. The expedition... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview