The Cruise of the Corwin
Subtitle: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881
Contributors: Bill McKibben (Foreword)
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: June 14, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780618057016
First sentence: THE Storm King of the North is abroad today, working with a fine, hearty enthusiasm, rolling a multitude of white combing waves through the rocky, jagged straits between this marvelous chain of islands, circling them about with beaten foam, and heaping a lavish abundance of snow on their lofty, cloud-wrapped mountains.