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The cruise of the Corwin : journal of the Arctic expedition of 1881 in search of De Long and the Jeanette
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The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette by John Muir edited by William Frederic Badè (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Manuscript specimen Fragment from a draft of chapter 7, page 147: "discriminating consciousness. The sod comes curving down to the waters edge, forming smooth outswelling banks overlapping glacier boulders in some places, + here you find mats of dwarf willow, which send up a gray silky breard [sic] of catkins illumined with the purple cups + bells of bryanthus + vaccinium. Go where you may you everywhere" Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as original frontispiece): The Corwin [from a painting by G.F. Denny] • Facing page x: The Jeanette in the Ice. [From Nourse's "American Explorations in the Ice Zones"] • Facing page xxxii: Erigeron Muirii. [The original herbarium specimen sent by Mr. Muir to Dr. Asa Gray. Now in the Gray Herbarium at Harvard, with Dr. Gray's notes attached.] • Facing page 4: Akutan Pass. • Facing page 6: Unalaksa, from the Harbor. • Facing page 20: Fur Seals on St. Paul Island. • Facing page 28: An Eskimo Woman and Child. • Facing page 54: Chukchi Indians on the Steamer Corwin at East Cape, Siberia. • Facing page 66: A Large Eskimo Skin Canoe. [From Capt. Healy's Report on the Cruise of the Corwin in the summer of 1882] • Facing page 72: A Walrus Herd in the Bering Sea. • Facing page 88: St. Michael, Alaska. [From an Eskimo drawing reproduced in W.H. Gilder's "Ice Pack and Tundra," 1882] • Facing page 90: Alaska Salmon. • Facing page 108: The Steamer Corwin at East Cape, Siberia. • Facing page 126: Wild Flowers on the Arctic Tundra. • Facing page 126b: Alaskan Ptamigan in Winter. • Facing page 130: King Island. • Facing page 144: Dryas octopetala. • Facing page 178: An Eskimo Hut at Cape Wankarem, Siberia. [Photo. By E. W. Nelson] • Facing page 180: In the Ice Pack. • Facing page 214: Fairway Rock. [From Capt. Healy's Report on the Cruise of the Corwin in 1882] • Facing page 218: U.S. Signal Station at Point Barrow. [From a painting in Lieut. Ray's Report] • Facing page [222]: Ice-pressure Arch at Point Barrow. [From Lieut. Ray's Report] • Facing page 228b: A Herd of Alaskan Reindeer. • Facing page 256: Mt. Fairweather from the Sea. • Facing page 286: Silene acaulis (Alpine Moss Campion). • Facing page 294: Saxifraga bronchialis (Alpine Saxifrage).
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Report of the cruise of the U.S. revenue steamer Thomas Corwin, in the Arctic Ocean, 1881
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