The Polar World: a Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the GlobeHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 486 sider |
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... travellers and voyagers . They are in every case authentic . LAMONT , JAMES : " Seasons with the Sea - Horses ; or , Sporting Adventures in the Northern Seas . " MILTON , VISCOUNT : " North - west Passage by Land . " WHYMPER , FREDERICK ...
... travellers and voyagers . They are in every case authentic . LAMONT , JAMES : " Seasons with the Sea - Horses ; or , Sporting Adventures in the Northern Seas . " MILTON , VISCOUNT : " North - west Passage by Land . " WHYMPER , FREDERICK ...
Side viii
... Traveller . - Thangbrand . - Golden Age of Icelandic Literature . -Snorri Sturleson . — The Island submits to Hakon , King of Norway , in 1254. - Long Series of Ca- lamities . Great Eruption of the Skapta Jökul in 1783. - Commercial ...
... Traveller . - Thangbrand . - Golden Age of Icelandic Literature . -Snorri Sturleson . — The Island submits to Hakon , King of Norway , in 1254. - Long Series of Ca- lamities . Great Eruption of the Skapta Jökul in 1783. - Commercial ...
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... Traveller's Persecutions at Ustsylmsk and Ish- emsk . - The Uusa . - Crossing the Ural . - Obdorsk . - Second Siberian Journey , 1845-48 . - Overflow- ing of the Obi . - Surgut . - Krasnojarsk . - Agreeable Surprise . - Turuchansk ...
... Traveller's Persecutions at Ustsylmsk and Ish- emsk . - The Uusa . - Crossing the Ural . - Obdorsk . - Second Siberian Journey , 1845-48 . - Overflow- ing of the Obi . - Surgut . - Krasnojarsk . - Agreeable Surprise . - Turuchansk ...
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... traveller would hardly suppose them to be more than fifty years , or at most a century old . Their juvenile appearance increases on advancing northward , until suddenly their decrepit age is re- vealed by the thick bushes of lichens ...
... traveller would hardly suppose them to be more than fifty years , or at most a century old . Their juvenile appearance increases on advancing northward , until suddenly their decrepit age is re- vealed by the thick bushes of lichens ...
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... traveller soon gets accustomed to bear without injury the rigors of an Arctic winter . " The mysterious compensations , " says Kane , " by which we adapt our- selves to climate are more striking here than in the tropics . In the Polar ...
... traveller soon gets accustomed to bear without injury the rigors of an Arctic winter . " The mysterious compensations , " says Kane , " by which we adapt our- selves to climate are more striking here than in the tropics . In the Polar ...
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Aleuts animal Antarctic appearance Arctic Arctic fox baidar banks bear birds boat Cape Captain Castrén chief climate coast cold Cossacks covered distance dogs Esquimaux expedition farther feet fish forests frequently grass Greenland ground Hammerfest height herds horses Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company hunters Iceland Icelandic horses Indians inhabitants island Jakut Jakutsk Jenissei journey Kamchatka lake land Lapland Lapp latitude length less Middendorff miles mountains navigators night northern Norwegian Nova Zembla Obdorsk obliged ocean once Ostiaks party Polar Sea pole reached regions reindeer river rocks Russian sailed Samoïedes scarcely seal season seldom ship shores Siberia Sir James Ross skins sledge snow soon Spitzbergen spot stones storm strait stream summer Tchuktchi temperature tent thick tion traveller trees tribes tundra vast vegetation versts vessels voyage walrus whale whole wild wind winter Yermak
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