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
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
Humanism shed a few bright beams on the hyperborean regions of Dundee and Glasgow.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
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
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
