The Polar World: a Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the GlobeHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 486 páginas |
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... animal ex- istence , and finally to picture man waging the battle of life against the dread- ful climate of the high latitudes of our globe either as the inhabitant of their gloomy solitudes , or as the bold investigator of their ...
... animal ex- istence , and finally to picture man waging the battle of life against the dread- ful climate of the high latitudes of our globe either as the inhabitant of their gloomy solitudes , or as the bold investigator of their ...
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... animal Life on the Tundri in Summer . - Their Silence and Desolation in Winter . - Protection afforded to Vegetation by the Snow . - Flower - growth in the highest Latitudes . - Character of Tundra Vegetation . - Southern Boundary ...
... animal Life on the Tundri in Summer . - Their Silence and Desolation in Winter . - Protection afforded to Vegetation by the Snow . - Flower - growth in the highest Latitudes . - Character of Tundra Vegetation . - Southern Boundary ...
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... Animal Life . - Midnight Silence . Glaciers . A dangerous Neighborhood.- Interior Plateau . - Flora of Spitzbergen . -Its Similarity with that of the Alps above the Snow - line . - Reindeer . - The hyperborean Ptarmigan.— Fishes ...
... Animal Life . - Midnight Silence . Glaciers . A dangerous Neighborhood.- Interior Plateau . - Flora of Spitzbergen . -Its Similarity with that of the Alps above the Snow - line . - Reindeer . - The hyperborean Ptarmigan.— Fishes ...
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... Animals .--- The Sable . The Ermine . - The Siberian Weasel . - The Sea - otter . - The black Fox . - The Lynx.- The ... Animal Life . - Reindeer - hunting . - Famine . - Inundations . -The Siberian Dog . - First Journeys over the Ice of ...
... Animals .--- The Sable . The Ermine . - The Siberian Weasel . - The Sea - otter . - The black Fox . - The Lynx.- The ... Animal Life . - Reindeer - hunting . - Famine . - Inundations . -The Siberian Dog . - First Journeys over the Ice of ...
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... animal Life on the Tundri in Summer . - Their Silence and Desolation in Winter . - Protection afforded to Vegetation by the Snow . - Flower - growth in the highest Latitudes . - Character of Tundra Vegetation . - Southern Boundary ...
... animal Life on the Tundri in Summer . - Their Silence and Desolation in Winter . - Protection afforded to Vegetation by the Snow . - Flower - growth in the highest Latitudes . - Character of Tundra Vegetation . - Southern Boundary ...
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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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Página 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...