The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some Romantic Love Affairs Amid Strange SurroundingsJ. F. Taylor, 1901 - 323 páginas |
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... seemed to me undoubted bits of evidence in the reports of some recent polar ob- servations . Borchgrevink , a Norwegian explorer , returning with a poorly fitted Antarctic expedition , reported , among other things , a warm current off ...
... seemed to me undoubted bits of evidence in the reports of some recent polar ob- servations . Borchgrevink , a Norwegian explorer , returning with a poorly fitted Antarctic expedition , reported , among other things , a warm current off ...
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... seemed to me the simple and obvious causes . As a rule , they ridiculed the idea of a habitable world , or even the possibility of penetrating the continent at all . When I timidly referred to a plan I had partially conceived ...
... seemed to me the simple and obvious causes . As a rule , they ridiculed the idea of a habitable world , or even the possibility of penetrating the continent at all . When I timidly referred to a plan I had partially conceived ...
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... seemed reason- ably well - fed , and he saw I was in earnest , so he was willing to listen . He put his feet upon a table near me while he did it . When I got the bald facts out and was getting ready to amplify a little he broke in ...
... seemed reason- ably well - fed , and he saw I was in earnest , so he was willing to listen . He put his feet upon a table near me while he did it . When I got the bald facts out and was getting ready to amplify a little he broke in ...
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... seemed to me I had most rea- son to expect welcome and encouragement , I turned for comfort to those who , like my forbears , went down to the sea in ships . Along South Street , where the sky shows through a tangle of rigging , and ...
... seemed to me I had most rea- son to expect welcome and encouragement , I turned for comfort to those who , like my forbears , went down to the sea in ships . Along South Street , where the sky shows through a tangle of rigging , and ...
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... seemed to me , were his ships , hence , my ships that were coming in , at last . I found in them treasures of joy unspeakable . Those from around the Horn seemed to bring me direct messages from the lost sailor . I felt that had he ...
... seemed to me , were his ships , hence , my ships that were coming in , at last . I found in them treasures of joy unspeakable . Those from around the Horn seemed to bring me direct messages from the lost sailor . I felt that had he ...
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The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some ... Albert Bigelow Paine Visualização de excertos - 1975 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.