The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some Romantic Love Affairs Amid Strange SurroundingsJ. F. Taylor, 1901 - 323 страници |
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... ready to amplify a little he broke in : " How long would it take you to go there and get back ? " he asked . " I hardly know - five years , perhaps possibly longer . " The millionaire editor took his feet down . " Humph SEEKING TO ...
... ready to amplify a little he broke in : " How long would it take you to go there and get back ? " he asked . " I hardly know - five years , perhaps possibly longer . " The millionaire editor took his feet down . " Humph SEEKING TO ...
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... ready for anything to explore , to filibuster , to seek for hidden treasure to go anywhere and to do anything that would make me fairly and legitimate- ly a part and parcel with the sea . I read one morn- ing of a daring voyager who in ...
... ready for anything to explore , to filibuster , to seek for hidden treasure to go anywhere and to do anything that would make me fairly and legitimate- ly a part and parcel with the sea . I read one morn- ing of a daring voyager who in ...
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... ready enough to simplify . 66 Mr. Gale , " I began , " you are aware , perhaps , that when we dig down into the earth we find that it becomes rapidly warmer as we descend , so that a heat is presently reached at which life could not ...
... ready enough to simplify . 66 Mr. Gale , " I began , " you are aware , perhaps , that when we dig down into the earth we find that it becomes rapidly warmer as we descend , so that a heat is presently reached at which life could not ...
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... ready . In three or four months , perhaps . " Once more the deflected vision of Captain Biffer laid its scorn heavily upon us . " And get down there and stuck in the ice below Cape Horn about the middle of March , just when their winter ...
... ready . In three or four months , perhaps . " Once more the deflected vision of Captain Biffer laid its scorn heavily upon us . " And get down there and stuck in the ice below Cape Horn about the middle of March , just when their winter ...
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... wait- ing a year ? Why not go this year ? " " Why . " I suggested , " we could hardly get ready . There will be food supplies to get together , instruments , implements , the balloon , and then the ALL THINGS BECOME POSSIBLE . 55.
... wait- ing a year ? Why not go this year ? " " Why . " I suggested , " we could hardly get ready . There will be food supplies to get together , instruments , implements , the balloon , and then the ALL THINGS BECOME POSSIBLE . 55.
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ahead ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE altogether Antarctic Antarctic Circle ascended balloon barrier beautiful believe berg Bill Billowcrest boat Bottle Bay brown cows cabin Cape Horn Captain Biffer Chase Chauncey Gale chord cold comfort dark deck Doolan dream drift EAST SIXTEENTH ST Edith Gale eyes face feet Ferratoni Gale's gwine hand harbor heah ice-wall J. F. TAYLOR Johnnie land Larkins laughed looked lozenges miles Miss Edith Miss Gale morning never Nicholas Nicholas Chase Nick night once perhaps Prince Princess river rope sail sailors seemed ship silent snow South Pole southward story Sturritt tablets TAYLOR & COMPANY telephone tell things thought tide told turned uncle vessel vibrations Victoria Land Violet Fields voice waited wall warm warm river what's wheah wind words York
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