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

It was a choice little harbor, a good way north of the Arctic Circle,—fairly within the realm of hyperborean barrenness,—very near the northernmost border of civilized settlement.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various

What then must be their appearance during the long, trying winter of these hyperborean regions?

From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Thus she was enabled to grasp the lurid sun by two enormous whiskers, and, putting her lips out, gave it a charming “nor’-wester,” which was returned with hyperborean violence.

From Philosopher Jack by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

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