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Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, volume l
Reproduction of the original: Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, volume l by Karl Ritter von Scherzer
In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Complete)
IN the beginning the world appeared to mankind like a fairy tale; everything that lay beyond the circle of familiar experience was a shifting cloudland of the fancy, a playground for all the fabled beings of mythology; but in the farthest distance, towards the west and north, was the region of darkness and mists, where sea, land and sky were merged into a congealed mass—and at the end of all gaped the immeasurable mouth of the abyss, the awful void of space. Out of this fairy world, in course of time, the calm and sober lines of the northern landscape appeared. With unspeakable labour the eye of man has forced its way gradually towards the north, over mountains and forests, and tundra, onw...
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