The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 by John Muir

The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881

John Muir with Bill McKibben

320 pages first pub 1989 (view editions)

nonfiction history nature adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
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The Cruise of the Corwin suits the reader who savors quiet, richly observed travelogues that let nature’s vastness and human humility seep in slowly, rewarding patience with moments of wonder.

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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 acro...

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