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

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

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

He was the last of the Romanticists; Sainte-Beuve called him the Kamchatka of Romanticism; its remotest hyperborean peak.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles

Fortunately, the period is past when our admiration for hyperborean poetry needed to be justified by its similarity with the classics.

From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob