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

When the cygnets are full-grown, and the frost makes its appearance upon the lakes and rivers of the hyperborean regions, the swans begin to shift southwards.

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne

The Teutons are a wintry race and often take their summer joys in a hard, hyperborean fashion.

From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Henry, Stuart Oliver

He knows the secrets of the Sphinx, and of the monstrous idols; he is familiar with the burning deserts of Africa, and the horrors of hyperborean countries.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett

But this time it was in no hyperborean tempest that we were called forth, but when the very sweetest airs of June were blowing.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various