The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the GlobeHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 486 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
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 frozen grass Greenland ground Hammerfest height herds horses Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company hunters Iceland Icelandic horses Indians inhabitants Innuits island Jakut Jenissei journey lake land Lapland Lapp latitude length less Middendorff miles mountains navigators night northern Norwegian Nova Zembla obliged ocean once Ostiaks party pole reached regions reindeer river rocks Russian sailed Samoïedes scarcely seal season seldom ship shore 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 weather whale whole wild wind winter
Popular passages
Page 6 - A Greek-English Lexicon. Compiled by HG LIDDELL, DD Dean of Christ Church, and R. SCOTT, D,D. Dean of Rochester.
Page 3 - WHYMPER'S ALASKA. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America— now Ceded to the United States— and in various other parts of the North Pacific.
Page 428 - Whenever it is low water, winter or summer, night or day, they must rise to pick shell-fish from the rocks ; and the women either dive to collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair-line, without any hook, jerk out little fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast ; and such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi.
Page 393 - The head of the bay, as well as two places on each side, was terminated by perpendicular ice-cliffs of considerable height. Pieces were continually breaking off, and floating out to sea ; and a great fall happened while we were in the bay, which made a noise like cannon. The inner parts of the country were not less savage and horrible. The wild rocks raised their...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the Globe |
| Author | Georg Hartwig |
| Publisher | Harper & Brothers, 1869 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 486 pages |
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