A Polar Reconnaissance: Being the Voyage of the "Isbjörn" to Novaya Zemlya in 1879C. Kegan Paul & Company, 1881 - 361 sider Narrative of the "Isbjørn" cruise, including an historical summary of explorations in the Barents Sea, and to Novaya Zemlya. Also includes a discussion of the best route to the North Pole. |
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alpina anchor appeared Arctic expedition Arctic regions Arctic tern August Barents Sea Berg Island birds boat Burrough Strait Cairn Cape Nassau Captain Markham Carlsen coast of Novaya collection crew Cross Island cruise deck difficulty direction discovery Dutch east coast eastward exploration extreme of Novaya feet floe Franz Josef Land gale gallant glaciers glaucous gulls Greenland Harbour harpooneers high latitude hills Ice Haven Isbjörn ivory gulls July Kara Sea kittiwakes Lutke Bay Lystina Bay Markham miles month named Nameless Bay nests north side Matyushin northerly northern northwards Norwegian Novaya Zemlya observed obtained Orange Islands Pachtussoff pack passed Payer Polar reached reindeer round Russian sailed Samoyeds Schubert Bay seal season seen ship shores of Novaya side Matyushin Shar sighted sledge snow southward species specimens Spitzbergen steamer Tegetthoff Tromsö voyage walrus-hunters walruses weather west coast whilst Willem Barents wind winter quarters Ziwolka
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Side 321 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Side 221 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Side iii - MARKHAM (Capt. Albert Hastings), RN The Great Frozen Sea. A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert" during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6. With six fullpage Illustrations, two Maps, and twenty-seven Woodcuts. Fourth and cheaper edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s. A Polar Reconnaissance : being the Voyage of the " Isbjorn
Side 245 - O THE long and dreary Winter ! O the cold and cruel Winter ! Ever thicker, thicker, thicker Froze the ice on lake and river, Ever deeper, deeper, deeper Fell the snow o'er all the landscape, Fell the covering snow, and drifted Through the forest, round the village.
Side 136 - Thou hast thy frowns — with thee on high The storm has made his airy seat, Beyond that soft blue curtain lie His stores of hail and sleet. Thence the consuming lightnings break, There the strong hurricanes awake. Yet art thou prodigal of smiles — Smiles, sweeter than thy frowns are stern: Earth sends, from all her thousand isles, A shout at thy return. The glory that comes down from thee, Bathes, in deep joy, the land and sea.
Side 185 - In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon. Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And, like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke. Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
Side 282 - Gerrit, give me some drinke ; and he had no sooner drunke but he was taken with so sodain a qualme, that he turned his eies in his head and died presently, and we had no time to call the maister out of the other scute to speake unto him ; and so he died before Claes Adrianson who died shortly after him.
Side 32 - And then," says the old chronicler, " we prayed our Maister that we might be merry that night, and said that we were content to spend some of the wine that night which we had spared, and which was our share...
Side 32 - Twelfth-even, and then we prayed our Maister that we might be merry that night, and said that we were content to spend some of the wine that night which we had spared, and which was our share...
Side 281 - I shal not live long after him: and yet we did not judge William Barents to be so sicke, for we sat talking one with the other, and spake of many things, and William Barents...