Alice Walker is one of the most prolific and important writers of our time, known for her literary fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple (which was also a major Broadway play), her many volumes of poetry, and her powerful nonfiction collections. She is the author of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For , Possessing the Secret of Joy , The World Has Changed (edited by Rudolph P. Byrd), The Chicken Chronicles , The World Will Follow Joy , and The Cushion in the Road , all published by The ...
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Alice Walker is one of the most prolific and important writers of our time, known for her literary fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple (which was also a major Broadway play), her many volumes of poetry, and her powerful nonfiction collections. She is the author of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For , Possessing the Secret of Joy , The World Has Changed (edited by Rudolph P. Byrd), The Chicken Chronicles , The World Will Follow Joy , and The Cushion in the Road , all published by The New Press. Some of her other bestselling books include In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens , The Temple of My Familiar , By the Light of My Father's Smile , and The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart . Her advocacy on behalf of the dispossessed has spanned the globe. She lives in Northern California.
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Add this copy of The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic to cart. $25.99, new condition, Sold by Russell Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Victoria, BC, CANADA.
Add this copy of The Cruise of the Corwin-Journal of the Artic to cart. $132.00, good condition, Sold by Cultural Connection rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cape Coral, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1917 by Houghton Mifflin.
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First edition. "Published November 1917" on copyright page. Journal by Muir reported to San Francisco Daily bulletin about the dangers and episodes of the expedition in search of the steamer Jeanette and two Whalers missing since 1879. Muir was asked to accompany because of knowledge in botany and geology. Grey cloth stamped in white with nice pictorial paper label of the Corwin in ice on front cover. Top page edges gilt. xxxii, 279pp. with index and photos. Faint water stain at lower half here and there otherwise text is clean. Pages have a slight wave-hardly noticeable. Spine has a slight crease. Binding is in very good condition. Tightly bound. RARE. no jacket. Overall in Good condition.
Add this copy of Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition to cart. $142.00, like new condition, Sold by Sutton Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Norwich, VT, UNITED STATES, published by Norman S. Berg, 1974.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Hbk, 278pp, facsimile reprint of the Houghton Mifflin 1917 edition, illustr photo frontis, other b+w photo plates, dj faintly foxed at the spine with a small closed tear, otherwise fine unclipped and now in protective sleeve, internally appears unread an an excellent, clean, tight and unmarked copy, as new, becoming harder to find.
Add this copy of Cruise of the Corwin. Journal of the Arctic Expedition to cart. $157.00, like new condition, Sold by Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1917 by Houghton Mifflin.
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Edited by William Frederic Bade. Fine bright copy with about 1/8 inch loss to half of the head of the backstrip. [xxxii] [280] pp. 8vo, Kimes 348. Illus.
Add this copy of The Cruise of the Corwin Journal of the Arctic to cart. $169.00, very good condition, Sold by Crossroad Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eau Claire, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1917 by Houghton Mifflin Co..
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Very Good-with no dust jacket. Front hinge cracked. Slight spine lean. Some bumping and rubbing on spine extremities and board corners, with an 1/8" tear in the cloth at the spine tail. Fairly faint staining on spine. Bit of age-darkening on endpapers and page edges. Else pages clean.; B&W Illustrations; EXH21D; 279 pages.
Add this copy of The Cruise of the Corwin. Journal of the Arctic to cart. $409.00, very good condition, Sold by Aquila Books, ships from Calgary, AB, CANADA, published 1917 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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xxxi, (1), 278, (1)pp. Royal octavo. The large paper edition, limited to a printing of 550 copies, of which this is copy #265. Green cloth backed paper boards with a brown gilt stamped title label mounted to the spine. Edges roughly trimmed. Heavily illustrated with black and white plates taken from photographs, sketches by the author, paintings and a hand-coloured photogravure frontispiece; many of the photographs used were taken by Edward Curtis. A touch of wear along the edges of the boards. A tight and clean copy in very good to near fine condition. A. B. 11838. Muir was aboard the Revenue Steamer CORWIN when she was sent into the Arctic Ocean searching for the JEANNETTE; the first known landing was made on Wrangell Island.
Add this copy of The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic to cart. $3,007.00, very good condition, Sold by Raptis Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Palm Beach, FL, UNITED STATES, published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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First edition, large paper copy, one of five hundred and fifty copies, this is number 260. Octavo, original cloth. Edited by William Frederic Badè. Illustrated with plates from photographs and from sketches by Muir. Fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Kimes 348; BAL 14775. On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeanette departed San Francisco for the Bering Strait with the intention of finding a route to the North Pole. With the ship crushed by the pressure of the ice, its captain, George W. De Long, and twenty of its crew never made it back to America. The federal government called upon her captain, Calvin L. Hooper, to venture northwards and find out what happened to the USS Jeanette and the missing men. Built out of the finest Oregon fir, fastened with copper, galvanized iron, and locust-tree nails, the Corwin was the perfect ship for Arctic exploration where her sturdy sailing qualities were to prove of the utmost importance. John Muir, Scottish naturalist and explorer, sensing the possibilities of science and adventure in the exploration of this unknown Arctic land, immediately made himself available for the Corwin's expedition. During the cruise Muir kept a daily record of his experiences and observations, these along with the numerous letters he wrote form the basis of this fascinating account. As well as describing the day by day events of the Corwin in its search for any survivors of the Jeanette, Muir also recorded his encounters with Alaskan natives, describing how they survived this brutal environment. He drew upon his experience as a naturalist to beautifully capture the flora and fauna of this landscape.
