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Tom,"said Eric," just yesterday, you were a complete stranger to us! Now, you are part of our lives!
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― The Golden Nightingale
― The Golden Nightingale
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There it was, the land under 80 degrees, a land of stern magnificence, where icebergs rear up almost to the very mountaintops, and mountain rises above mountain; there it was, inviolate, alive to the raucous voice of millions of birds, the continuous staccato bark of foxes, the castanet click as the hoofs of great herds of deer fell in a swinging trot; there it was, surrounded by waters whose surface was slashed and sprayed by schools of walrus and whales that had swum there before ever man was
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― To the Arctic!: The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times
― To the Arctic!: The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times
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