Under the Northern LightsS. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876 - 339 pages |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 15 | |
| 25 | |
| 31 | |
| 42 | |
| 61 | |
| 71 | |
| 78 | |
| 186 | |
| 192 | |
| 203 | |
| 212 | |
| 218 | |
| 225 | |
| 230 | |
| 240 | |
| 87 | |
| 109 | |
| 137 | |
| 152 | |
| 161 | |
| 167 | |
| 180 | |
| 249 | |
| 267 | |
| 288 | |
| 301 | |
| 316 | |
| 325 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
appeared Arctic navigation Arctic ships ashore Barrow Strait bear Beechey Island Bellot's Straits beset Beynen boat cairn Cape Captain Nares Channel Chorus-Ha cloth extra coal coast cold Crown 8vo danger dark Davis Strait deck Demy 8vo Disko dogs Edition English Eskimo expedition eyes Fcap feet floe gilt edges girls Greenland heaps hunting Inlet Ivigtut journey killed kind King William's Island Lancaster Sound land light look McClintock McClintock Channel Melville Bay miles morning never night North Somerset North-west Passage Numerous Illustrations open water pack PANDORA Peel Strait pemmican Pirie Polar reach reefs rock sail scarcely seal seemed seen Shanadoa ship shore shot side silent Simpson Straits Sir John Franklin sledge Small post 8vo Smith Sound Snarley snow soon Starboard Story strange summer turn vols voyage warm wild wind winter
Popular passages
Page 4 - ST. LOUIS, KING OF FRANCE. THE ESSAYS OF ABRAHAM COWLEY, including all his Prose Works.
Page 16 - There is not a single thought in the volume that does not contribute in some measure to the formation of a true gentleman.
Page 17 - The chapters are so lively in themselves, so mingled with shrewd views of human nature, so full of illustrative anecdotes, that the reader cannot fail to be amused.
Page 16 - About in the World. Essays by the Author of "The Gentle Life." " It is not easy to open it at any page without finding some handy idea.
Page 32 - SCHWEINFURTH'S HEART OF AFRICA. The Heart of Africa. Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of the Centre of Africa. From 1868 to 1871. By Dr.
Page 16 - Familiar Words. An Index Verborum, or Quotation Handbook. Affording an immediate Reference to Phrases and Sentences that have become embedded in the English language. Second and enlarged Edition. "The most extensive dictionary of quotation we have met with." — Notes and Queries. Essays by Montaigne. Edited, Compared, Revised, and Annotated by the Author of "The Gentle Life.
Page 4 - Round Table. With Biographical Introduction. The Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend. By Sir THOMAS BROWNE, Knt. Ballad Poetry of the Affections. By ROBERT BUCHANAN. Coleridge's Christabel, and other Imaginative Poems. With Preface by ALGERNON C. SWINBURNE. Lord Chesterfield's Letters, Sentences and Maxims. With Introduction by the Editor, and Essay on Chesterfield by M. De Ste.-Beuve, of the French Academy.
Page 24 - The Wild North Land; the Story of a Winter Journey with Dogs across Northern North America. Demy 8vo, cloth, with numerous Woodcuts and a Map, 4th Edition, iSs.
Page 29 - One of the most readable books of the season ; permanently valuable, always interesting, often amusing, and not inferior in all the essentials of a gift book.
Page 30 - Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis with the Blow-Pipe. From the last German Edition, revised and enlarged. By Prof. TH. RICHTER, of the Royal Saxon Mining Academy. Translated by Prof. HB CORNWALL, Assistant in the Columbia School of Mines, New York.