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The Polar World

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The Polar World

Georg Hartwig

846 pages~16 hr 51 min read53 chapters$4.99
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At the top and bottom of the world lies the polar realm of ice, bear, and long night. Georg Hartwig surveys the Arctic lands, their quadrupeds and birds, the frozen seas, and the history of Iceland. Rich, comprehensive, and full of cold-world wonder. A grand nineteenth-century tour of the polar regions. Journey to the ends of the Earth and meet the life of the frozen world.

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53 chapters

  1. 1THE POLAR WORLD: A POPULAR DESCRIPTION OF MAN AND NATURE IN THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC REGIONS OF THE GLOBE.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3NOTE BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR.
  4. 4CONTENTS.
  5. 5LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  6. 6THE POLAR WORLD.
  7. 7CHAPTER I. THE ARCTIC LANDS.
  8. 8CHAPTER II. ARCTIC LAND QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS.
  9. 9CHAPTER III. THE ARCTIC SEAS.
  10. 10CHAPTER IV. ARCTIC MARINE ANIMALS
  11. 11CHAPTER V. ICELAND.
  12. 12CHAPTER VI. HISTORY OF ICELAND.
  13. 13CHAPTER VII. THE ICELANDERS.
  14. 14CHAPTER VIII. THE WESTMAN ISLANDS.
  15. 15CHAPTER IX. FROM DRONTHEIM TO THE NORTH CAPE.
  16. 16CHAPTER X. SPITZBERGEN—BEAR ISLAND—JAN MEYEN.
  17. 17CHAPTER XI. NOVA ZEMBLA.
  18. 18CHAPTER XII. THE LAPPS.

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