The Geographical Journal, Volume 64

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Royal Geographical Society., 1924
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately.
 

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Page 89 - Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated — so: "Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges — "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
Page 455 - I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there ye may be also.
Page 432 - If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!
Page 266 - The High Contracting Parties undertake to recognise, subject to the stipulations of the present Treaty, the full and absolute sovereignty of Norway over the Archipelago of Spitsbergen, comprising, with Bear Island or Beeren-Eiland, all the islands situated between 10° and 35° longitude East of Greenwich and between 74° and 81°...
Page iv - All Subscriptions are payable in advance, on the 1st of January in each year. The privileges of a Fellow include admission (with one Friend) to all ordinary Meetings of the Society, and the use of the Library and Map-room. Each Fellow is also entitled to receive a copy of all the Society's periodical publications. The Geographical Journal is forwarded, free of expense, to all Fellows whose addresses are known. Copies of the Year Book, Regulations, and Candidates...
Page 164 - My eyes became fixed on one tiny black spot, silhouetted on a small snow crest beneath a rockstep in the ridge, and the black spot moved. Another black spot became apparent, and moved up the snow to join the other on the crest. The first then approached the great rockstep and shortly emerged at the top. The second did likewise. Then the whole fascinating vision vanished. "Enveloped in cloud once more, there was but one explanation.
Page 165 - Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu, from the surveys made during Sir Aurel Stein's explorations, 1900-1, 1906-8, 1913-15.
Page 490 - Buxton's observations, and a good part of the paper is taken up with a discussion of the most suitable means of ascertaining the surface temperature.
Page 448 - I reached the top there was a sudden clearing of the atmosphere above me and I saw the whole summit ridge and final peak of Everest unveiled. I noticed far away on a snow slope leading up to what seemed to me to be the last step but one from the base of the final pyramid, a tiny object moving and approaching the rock step.
Page 159 - ... porters played up well; we obtained sleep even at the highest altitude, nearly 27,000 feet, and we had gorgeous days for the climb, almost windless and brilliantly fine, yet we were unable to get to the summit. So we have no excuse. We have been beaten in a fair fight — beaten by the height of a mountain and by our own shortness of breath — but the fight was worth it, worth it every time, and we shall cherish the privilege of defeat by the world's greatest mountain.

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