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He Went East and He Done Good

Marshall Noecker

Sanborn Press

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Fifty Years Below Zero - A Lifetime of Adventure in the Far North

Brower, Charles D.

Biographies & Memoirs

FIFTY YEARS BELOW ZERO- A Lifetime of Adventure in the Far North By CHARLES D. BROWER. INTRODUCTION: ON AND off for the last half century Charlie B rower has been Uncle Sams most northerly citizen. The honor was taken for a spell by his partner an old friend Tom Gordon, who had a house three miles farther north at another time Charlie Klengenberg camped six miles beyond, towards the Pole. But Klengenberg moved to Coronation Gulf and Gordon to Demarcation Point both places farther east but also farther south. That left Brower what he had been earlier Americas most northerly pioneer. Brower is what a loyal American likes to think of as a typical American. He is what you might expect of Manhattan Island born somewhere around Twenty-third Street when that street was far uptown he is the logical development of a boy who was ad mitted to Annapolis but who left that road of gold-braided pro motion for the paths of high and free adventure on unknown seas and shores. Meet him at the City Club in New York, and you think him what in a sense he was born to be, a typical successful and genial New Yorker meet him at the Explorers Club of New York, to which he also belongs, and you will have difficulty in localizing him among that far-traveled company. For he talks Africa, and Australia of the Ballarat days, till you think him a Tropic rather than a Polar-man. I write this to introduce a book which I have read in its origi nal and rough draft, but I shall read it again with eagerness when it comes from the press in its finished and, I understand, more compact version. For if Charlie finally imparts a third of what he knows about whaling, pioneering, and about the Arctic, it will be a source-book on f rendering and high adventure if he writes with a third of his conversational zest and charm, it will be lit erature. But in any case the tale will be to me the life-story of one of my oldest and dearest friends and in subscribing myself a friend I speak for most of the explorers, whalers, traders and missionaries who have reached or passed the north tip of Alaska since 1884. I speak, too, I am sure, for many captains and officers of the U. S. Coast Guard, for reconnaissance workers of the U. S. Geological Survey, for teachers whom the U. S. Bureau of Educa tion has been pushing up toward Barrow of comparatively recent years, and for nearly everyone else who for any reason has come within reach of Charlie B rowers help and his cheer at any time during his fifty-eight years of keeping open house to all comers about three hundred and thirty miles north of the Arctic Circle, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. ILLUSTRATIONS: King of the Arctic Charles D. Brower . . . Frontispiece FACZNXS PAGE Eskimo women carrying their children piggy-back . . 38 Whaling scene 54 A whaling camp located out on the ice , 54 Old Eskimo woman enjoying her cigarette in quietude and peace 70 A Point Barrow native, smoking his home-made pipe . . 70 Eskimo kayak 86 Walrus hunting on the floating ice 102 Full-blooded Eskimo woman at right, married to a white man and her family of half-breed children 118 SL Paul, one of the Seal Islands, halfway between the Aleu tian Islands and Behring Straits 134 Tessie George, a Barrow Eskimo schoolteacher . . . .150 Typical Eskimo camp in the summer 182 Summer at Barrow, showing Mr...

Two centuries ago, Joseph Addison tells us in the character of Mr Spectator - L When I travelled I took a particular delight in hearing the songs and fables that are come down from father to son, and are most in vogue among the common people of the countries through which I passed for it is impossible that anything should be universally tasted and approved of by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of the nation, which hath not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify the mind of man Spectator . He further says - An ordinary song or ballad, that is the delight of the common people, cannot fail to please all such readers as are not unqualified for the enter- tainment by their affectation or ignorance. It was not only the cultured Mr Addison who recognised the claims of the peoples songs as expressive of sentiments that were worthy the consideration of the more learned, for quotation upon quotation could be given of examples where the refined and learned have found in the primitive song that which appealed in the highest degree. The moderns need no excuse for the study of folk-song, and few will regard the consideration of peoples-lore as an idle amusement. The present essay is put forth with all diffidence as a very slight dissertation upon a complex subject, and it does not pretend to do more than enter into the fringe of it. The younger of the present generation have seen the gradual speeding up of technique in composition and performance, but with this increased standard there has been a tendency to let fall certain very sacred and essential things that belong to musical art. In too many cases the composer has not quite justified the complexity of his composition while glorying in the skill of his craftsmanship he has too frequently forgotten the primitive demand for art and beauty, apart from technical elaboration. That type of simple melody that formerly pleased what we might regard as a less cultured age, holds no place in present-day composition or in the esteem of a certain class...

English Folk-Song And Dance

Kidson, Frank

Sports & Outdoors

The Constitution Of The Five Great Nations Or The Iroquois Book Of The Great Law

History

Parker, Arthur C.

Americas

Mathematics for the Practical Man: Explaining Simply and Quickly all the Elements of Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Logarithms, Coordinate Geometry, Calculus with Answers to Problems

Howe, George

Reference

Villas and Cottages

Vaux, Calvert

Shetland

Cowie, Robert

England Under the House of Hanover - Its History and Condition During the Reigns of the Three Georges - In Two Volumes - Vol. I

Literature & Fiction

WRIGHT, THOMAS

Literary

<p>This wonderful piece by Johannes Brahms contains a score for piano and violin. It is a fine example of the composer's work and a fantastic addition to any classical musician's repertoire. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.</p>

Violin Sonata No.1 by Johannes Brahms for Piano and Violin (1879) Op.78

Arts & Photography

Brahms, Johannes

Music

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