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
What weariness to the flesh is this tedious climb to regions hyperborean!
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus
According to his mellow descriptions, the equator has a decided advantage over these dull, temperate, hyperborean regions.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
Then the real difficulty of the Straits will be faced, and probably—as Russia has overcome the difficulties of the Baltic—so will the Canadian Northwest overcome the difficulties of this hyperborean sea.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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
