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

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)

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

The remarkable fact concerning these stones, is the similarity, in numerous instances complete, of the sculptures graven on them to those at Nineveh, as though the hyperborean and the Oriental had a common origin.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 by Chambers, William

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