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Author Muir, John, 1838-1914.

Title The Cruise of the Corwin : John Muir's Final Great Adventure
Published Crabtree : Narrative Press, The, Sept. 2004

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages)
Contents ""Table of contents""; ""introduction""; ""unalaska and the aleuts""; ""among the islands of bering sea""; ""siberian adventures""; ""in peril from the pack""; ""a chukchi orator""; ""eskimos and walrus""; ""at plover bay and st. michael""; ""return of the search party""; ""villages of the dead""; ""glimpses of alaskan tundra""; ""caribou and a native fair""; ""zigzags among the polar pack""; ""first ascent of herald island""; ""approaching a mysterious land""; ""the land of the white bear""; ""tragedies of the whaling fleet""; ""meeting the point barrow expedition""
""A siberian reindeer herd""""turned back by storms and ice""; ""homeward bound""; ""appendix i""; ""appendix ii""
Summary Annotation. The story of Muir's journey 15,000 nautical miles from San Francisco into the Artic Sea
Audience Trade The Narrative Press
Subject Corwin (Ship)
SUBJECT Corwin (Ship) fast
Subject Discoveries in geography
SUBJECT Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006958
Subject Arctic Regions
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781589760226
1589760220