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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... wall of ice , there lay a great undiscovered world . Not a bleak desolation of storm - swept peaks and glaciers , but a fair , fruitful land , warmed and nour- ished from beneath by the great central heat brought nearer to the surface ...
... wall of ice , there lay a great undiscovered world . Not a bleak desolation of storm - swept peaks and glaciers , but a fair , fruitful land , warmed and nour- ished from beneath by the great central heat brought nearer to the surface ...
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... wall which no man had ever scaled . What lay beyond , no man of our world had ever But in my fancy I saw those ramparts of eternal ice receding inward to a pleasant land , as the snow - capped Sierras slope to the verdant plains of ...
... wall which no man had ever scaled . What lay beyond , no man of our world had ever But in my fancy I saw those ramparts of eternal ice receding inward to a pleasant land , as the snow - capped Sierras slope to the verdant plains of ...
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... wall that surrounds it , or to cross the frozen zone beyond . The ice- wall is anywhere from one to two thousand feet high . I have a plan for scaling it and for drifting over the frozen belt in a balloon to which , instead of a car ...
... wall that surrounds it , or to cross the frozen zone beyond . The ice- wall is anywhere from one to two thousand feet high . I have a plan for scaling it and for drifting over the frozen belt in a balloon to which , instead of a car ...
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... wall two thousand feet high ! Oh , Lord ! What is home without a door - knob ! " " There does appear to be an element of humor in some phases of my proposition , " I admitted , " but I have faith in it , nevertheless , and am quite ...
... wall two thousand feet high ! Oh , Lord ! What is home without a door - knob ! " " There does appear to be an element of humor in some phases of my proposition , " I admitted , " but I have faith in it , nevertheless , and am quite ...
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... two thousand foot ice- wall in a balloon . " I shook hands heartily with the thin , solemn man , who made an anxious attempt to smile and seated himself rather insecurely on the edge of a chair . I OVERHAUL THE BILLOWCREST . 35.
... two thousand foot ice- wall in a balloon . " I shook hands heartily with the thin , solemn man , who made an anxious attempt to smile and seated himself rather insecurely on the edge of a chair . I OVERHAUL THE BILLOWCREST . 35.
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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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Страница 313 - There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found ; And while the mouldering ashes sleep Low in the ground...
Страница 312 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Страница 258 - No man could be rich, no man could be poor, in Peru ; but all might enjoy, and did enjoy, a competence. Ambition, avarice, the love of change, the morbid spirit of discontent, those passions which most agitate the minds of men, found no place in the bosom of the Peruvian.