hyperborean

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Photograph: Apic/Getty In Barry Lopez's haunting, poetic book about the hyperborean realms, Arctic Dreams, there's a magnificent story about an Inuit family who are washed out to the seas on a calved iceberg.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2013

For example, Amable Grignon, a Green Bay trader, wintered in 1818 at Lac qui Parle in Minnesota, the next year at Lake Athabasca, and the third in the hyperborean regions of Great Slave Lake.

From The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin by Turner, Frederick Jackson

What more amiable example of give-and-take than the intertwining of birch and orange, the thin ghostly sprays of the hyperborean caressing the fragrant leaf and golden globes of the sub-tropical?

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various

Fortunately, the period is past when our admiration for hyperborean poetry needed to be justified by its similarity with the classics.

From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob

His nearest neighbour could not have heard him speak, so he said nothing and watched; but whilst watching he was witness to an odd phenomenon, peculiar to hyperborean regions.

From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne, Jules