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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions Vilhjalmur Stefansson Visualització completa - 1921 |
The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions (Classic Reprint) Vilhjalmur Stefansson Previsualització no disponible - 2017 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
able Alaska animals Arctic ashore Banks Island Beaufort Sea Bernard Harbor Borden Island camp Cape Kellett Cape Murray Captain Bernard caribou carried Castel Collinson Point cooking Coronation Gulf cross depot diary dogs drift east Emiu Eskimos expedition explorers feet fifteen five floe four Gonzales Hadley half Herschel Island hundred hunting journey Karluk killed knew land later living Lougheed Island mainland meat Melville Island Mercy Bay miles Natkusiak never Noice north coast northwest open water ovibos party Peary pemmican Point Barrow Polar Bear pounds Prince Patrick Island probably reason ridge rifle River sea ice seal seemed seen ship shore skins sledges sleds snow snowhouse Sound spring Star Stefansson Storkerson Strait summer temperature tent things Thomsen tion told trip vicinity Victoria Island walk weather whaling Wilkins wind winter wolves Wrangel Island yards
Passatges populars
Pàgina xviii - Six years ago in the parlour of a hotel in Rome, I said good-bye to a confident young friend of mine who was starting then for home in order to begin one of our latest polar quests. I met him here today for the first time since then. How much has happened to him in those six years I need not attempt to relate. Five and one-half years of those six this man has been there in the arctic regions adding to the sum of the world's knowledge. Five and one-half years! "It is not my intent to go into a resume...
Pàgina 280 - ... where the gristle, surplus fat, and bone are trimmed off. The meat then goes to the cutting machine, which cuts it into pieces, according to the size of the cans to be filled. After it is cut to the proper size the...
Pàgina xviii - Coming Polar explorers, both north and south, are quite. likely to use mechanical means which have sprung into existence within the last few years. According to my own personal impressions — aerial flights...
Pàgina 217 - The hunting and exploring trip into the interior of Banks Island was an interesting and delightful one for Storkerson and me. Here was a beautiful country of valleys everywhere gold and white with flowers or green with grass or mingled greens and brown with grass and lichens, except some of the hill tops which were rocky and barren. These hills differed in...
Pàgina 40 - well-brought up" men, used in their homes to a large variety of foods, both domestic and imported, take very readily to any new thing (such, for instance, as seal meat) . But men " poorly brought-up " and used only to half a dozen or so articles of food in their regular diet, are generally very reluctant to try a new food unless it has been represented to them in advance as an expensive or specially delicious thing.
Pàgina xviii - What Stefansson stands for is this: he has grasped the meaning of polar work and has pursued his tasks in the Arctic regions section by section. He has profited by experience piled upon experience until he knows how to face and overcome every problem of the North. His method of work is to take the white man's brains and intelligence and the white man's persistence and will-power into the Arctic and supplement these forces with the woodcraft, or, I should say, polar-craft, of the Eskimo — the ability...
Pàgina 548 - The harder they laboured, the more they sweated, until the body moisture "condensed in our outer garments, which were now a mass of ice and transformed into complete suits of ice-armour. . . . These clothes were so stiff that the arm of my coat actually rubbed deep sores in my wrists during our marches. . . . When we got into our sleeping-bags in the evening our clothes began to thaw slowly. ... At last they became wet and pliant, only to freeze again a few minutes after we had turned out of our...
Pàgina 124 - Huge pieces are then torn rapidly off the edges of both floes if they are of similar thickness, or off the edge of the weaker. If you happen to be camped on the weaker one, it behooves you to move quickly.
Pàgina xxv - The results accomplished would have been impossible if Stefansson had been a man of less resource and courage. His commanding intellectual powers, remarkable faculty of observation, capacity for keen analysis of facts and conditions, splendid poise and balance, and immense physical strength and endurance made great results...
Pàgina xix - The contributions of his expeditions are important and extensive. Besides the natural history and geologic knowledge, he has made inroads into the million square miles of unknown Arctic regions, the largest for many years. His hydrographic work is specially important, in surveys, and in magnetic declinations. His numerous soundings not only outline the continental shelf from Alaska to Prince Patrick Island, but also disclose the submarine mountains and valleys of the bed of Beaufort Sea.