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HANNO
the Poles—has drawn the explorer
by many different routes, but the
Lands Between still stretch their
leagues of terra incognita to challenge
the venturous.
Arctica unexplored possesses a giant
triangle, not quite isosceles, with a
line reaching from the Liakhoffs to
Point Barrow for its base and the
North Pole for apex. De Long’s
furthest north in 1881 has been almost
the only incursion of the explorer upon
it. Its white allure is fringed with
moving ice-sheets, east of which the
Fram once scraped in its historic
drift. Its survey and exploration
present problems which I cannot but
believe will be overcome, though
certainly neither by athletes nor special
correspondents. Amongst explorers
the Siberian coast is held to be the
best base of approach and there are
lumours that the Moscow and Lenin-
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the Poles—has drawn the explorer
by many different routes, but the
Lands Between still stretch their
leagues of terra incognita to challenge
the venturous.
Arctica unexplored possesses a giant
triangle, not quite isosceles, with a
line reaching from the Liakhoffs to
Point Barrow for its base and the
North Pole for apex. De Long’s
furthest north in 1881 has been almost
the only incursion of the explorer upon
it. Its white allure is fringed with
moving ice-sheets, east of which the
Fram once scraped in its historic
drift. Its survey and exploration
present problems which I cannot but
believe will be overcome, though
certainly neither by athletes nor special
correspondents. Amongst explorers
the Siberian coast is held to be the
best base of approach and there are
lumours that the Moscow and Lenin-
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| The books of Lewis Grassic Gibbon > Hanno, or, The future of exploration > (30) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/206586281 |
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| Description | By J. Leslie Mitchell. |
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| Shelfmark | S.114.j.21 |
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| Description | Sixteen books written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901-1935), regarded as the most important Scottish prose writer of the early 20th century. All were published in the last seven years of his life, mostly under his real name, James Leslie Mitchell. They include two works of science fiction, non-fiction works on exploration, short stories set in Egypt, a novel about Spartacus, and the classic 'Scots Quair' trilogy which includes 'Sunset Song'. Mitchell's first book 'Hanno, or the future of exploration' (1928) is rare and has never been republished. |
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