Lanterna Rally

Author: John Leslie

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9781331876397

Excerpt from Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas and Regions: With Illustrations of Their Climate, Geology, and Natural History The design of the present work is to exhibit a complete and connected view of the successive voyages made to the Arctic regions. In those climates Nature is marked by the most stupendous features, and the forms which she assumes differ from her appearances in our milder latitudes almost as widely as if they belonged to another planet. There the scenery is awful and dreary, yet abounds in striking, sublime, and even beautiful objects. The career of the navigators, who at various times have traversed the northern seas, amid tempest, darkness, and mountains of floating ice, presents such a series of peril and vicissitude, and has given rise to so many extraordinary displays of intrepidity and heroism, as cannot fail to render most interesting the story of their several adventures. When we consider also, that in this field of discovery England laid the foundation of her maritime preeminence, and that the men who have earned the greatest glory in it have been chiefly British, it will be admitted that the History of Northern Navigation must have a peculiar charm for the English reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.