The Scottish Tartans by Sir Innes Of Learneythomas

The Scottish Tartans by Sir Innes Of Learneythomas

Excerpt from The Open Polar Sea: A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole, in the Schooner United States

The design of this book may be briefly explained. I have attempted little more than a personal narra tive, endeavoring to select from my abundant notes such scenes and incidents of adventure as seemed to me best calculated to bring before the mind of the reader, not merely the history of our voyage, but a general View of the Arctic regions, - its scenery and its life, with a cursory glance at those physical forces which, in their results, give characteristic ex pression to that remote quarter of the world. A day of months, followed by a night of months, where the mean annual temperature rises but little above zero, must necessarily clothe the air and the land scape with a sentiment difficult to appreciate, or, I might perhaps say, feel, without actual observation. I shall be abundantly rewarded if I have succeeded in impressing upon the reader's mind, with any de gree of vividness, the wonders and the grandeur of Nature as unfolded to us under the Arctic sky.

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SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780717945023
ISBN 10	0717945022
Titel	The Scottish Tartans
Autor	Sir Innes Of Learneythomas
Serie	Johnston And Bacon Clan Histories
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Bacon (G.W.) & Co .Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1995-11-01
Seitenanzahl	112
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.