p. 21: Young Midshipman Robert Hood is unaccustomed to both the nightly ‘dismal serenade’ of the ‘cowardly, stupid and ravenous’ sled dogs and to the lazy winter lives of the traders, ‘few of [whom] have books, and the incidents of their lives do not furnish much subject for thought.’ Hood decides: ‘in such a state one might be disposed to envy the half year’s slumber of the bears.’
Playing Dead: A Contemplation Concerning the Arctic.
Wiebe, Rudy. Edmonton, ALB: NeWest, 1989.
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The Wreck of the Maid of Athens, Being the Journal of Emily Wooldridge 1869-1870.
Wooldridge, Emily. Edited and Illustrated by Laurence Irving. New York: Macmillan, 1953.
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The wreck occurred somewhere between Tierra del Fuego and Staten Island on the Lemaire Channel. This is the homespun story of a petticoat sailor, in dire straits, always devoted to her husband’s command.