"John Muir was certainly as concerned for the potential loss of marvelous Arctic cultures as he was for our continent\'s vanishing wilderness.
In this sense, THE Cruise OF THE CORWIN truly deserves our attention, especially in light of all that is happening in the Arctic today." -Richard Fleck John Muir agreed in 1881 to sail aboard the Corwin, whose fruitless mission it was to Search for the missing scientific reSearch vessel Jeannette, which itself became icebound while. "John Muir was certainly as concerned for the potential loss of marvelous Arctic cultures as he was for our continent\'s vanishing wilderness