The Cruise of the Corwin Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+. 1917. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is the First Trade edition, with the date November 1917 on the copyright page. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. There is some light bumping to the top spine and corner ends. The spine of the book has some fading / rubbing to the white lettering on the publishing information at the bottom spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. All the illustrations are present and in clean, bright condition. "The Corwin was a steamer belonging to the US Treasury Department that sailed the waters of Alaska protecting US interests at sea-otter hunting grounds. For its June 1881 voyage it was charged with making inquiries into the fate of the three vessels and rendering appropriate aid. The Corwin was sent out partly as a relief expedition for the Jeannette and two missing whaling vessels, Mount Wallaston and Vigilant. Jeannette, commanded by Commander George W. De Long, had sailed to the Bering Strait in 1879 to explore the Arctic Ocean, but went missing. Corwin was commanded by Captain C. L. Hooper, and the cruise went to the Arctic Ocean along Northwest Alaska. By Hooper’s invitation, John Muir accompanied the voyage. Muir studied and wrote about the glaciation of the region and its vegetation. He collected plants at many locations on the coasts of Alaska and Siberia, and on St. Lawrence, Wrangell, and Herald Islands" (from the Smithsonian website) .