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

Humanism shed a few bright beams on the hyperborean regions of Dundee and Glasgow.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

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

Like a thick miasmic cloud, as we read this great pagan critic, all the fogs and vapours of turgid hyperborean superstition are driven away from the face of the warm sun.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper