Siberia in Asia: a visit to the valley of the Yenesay1882 |
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... ship's rudder - Preparations to abandon the ship- Babel of birds — We desert the ship - On board again - The Thames steered into the creek - Enormous pressure on the ice - The battle of the Yenesay - Calving of icebergs - the final ...
... ship's rudder - Preparations to abandon the ship- Babel of birds — We desert the ship - On board again - The Thames steered into the creek - Enormous pressure on the ice - The battle of the Yenesay - Calving of icebergs - the final ...
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Henry Seebohm. Three ships were sent to the Arctic region on a wild - goose chase after the semi - fabulous land of ... ship and the lives of his crew , but discovered Archangel , which subsequently became a little English colony . At ...
Henry Seebohm. Three ships were sent to the Arctic region on a wild - goose chase after the semi - fabulous land of ... ship and the lives of his crew , but discovered Archangel , which subsequently became a little English colony . At ...
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... ship was frozen up in winter quarters . A room in a peasant's house on the banks of the river , looking down on to the ship , was rigged up for the crew , and as soon as the ice on the river was thick enough to make sledging safe ...
... ship was frozen up in winter quarters . A room in a peasant's house on the banks of the river , looking down on to the ship , was rigged up for the crew , and as soon as the ice on the river was thick enough to make sledging safe ...
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... ship , with the intention of returning in her to Europe through the Kara Sea , I lost no time in putting myself in communication with him . I was anxious to carry our ornithological and ethnological researches a step further to the ...
... ship , with the intention of returning in her to Europe through the Kara Sea , I lost no time in putting myself in communication with him . I was anxious to carry our ornithological and ethnological researches a step further to the ...
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... ship , and how we lost her , and had to travel home again by land , form the subject of the present volume . The reader may , however , feel some interest in following the narrative of the attempts to explore the North-. OSTYAKS OF THE ...
... ship , and how we lost her , and had to travel home again by land , form the subject of the present volume . The reader may , however , feel some interest in following the narrative of the attempts to explore the North-. OSTYAKS OF THE ...
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