New PDF release: The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition

By John Muir,Richard F. Fleck

John Muir agreed in 1881 to sail aboard the Corwin, whose fruitless project it was once to look for the lacking clinical examine vessel Jeannette, which itself turned icebound whereas exploring the far away and mysterious Wrangell Land within the better latitudes of the Arctic. This cruise could have the funds for Muir the chance to ascertain facts of glaciation alongside the arctic coastlines of Siberia and Alaska and the harmonious way of life of Inuits and Chukchis, which used to be in the course of disruption from the intrusions of the civilized South.

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