G. HARTWIG, M. & P.D.

AUTHOR OF THE SEA AND ITS LIVING WONDERS' THE HARMONIES OF NATURE'

'THE TROPICAL WORLD' AND 'THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD.'

SECOND EDITION,

WITH EIGHT CHROMOXYLOGRAPHIC PLATES, THREE MAPS,

AND NUMEROUS WOODCUTS.

LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

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THE OBJECT of the following pages is to describe

the Polar World in its principal natural features, to

point out the influence of its long winter-night and
fleeting summer on the development of vegetable and
animal existence, and finally to picture man waging the
battle of life against the dreadful climate of the high
latitudes of our globe either as the inhabitant of their
gloomy solitudes, or as the bold investigator of their
mysteries.

The Table of Contents shows the great variety of

interesting subjects embraced within a comparatively

narrow compass; and as my constant aim has been to

convey solid instruction under an entertaining form, I

venture to hope that the public will grant a favourable

reception to this new edition of The Polar World,' in

which I have traced the path of discovery to its most

recent dates.

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SALON VILLA, Ludwigsburg:
January 3, 1874.

G. HARTWIG.