Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 12 | 348 | Many View more quotes about people">people do not understand the nature of the polar north. |
| 12 | 349 | For one thing, it is very dry. |
| 12 | 350 | Less snow falls there generally than falls in most lower latitudes. |
| 12 | 351 | Snow that does fall, of course, is less likely to melt. |
| 12 | 352 | Most of the land is tundra, a cool, generally level or slightly wavy, treeless plain. |
| 12 | 353 | In the summer this tundra, covered with mosses, shrubs, and lichens, because of the melted surface ice and the permafrost beneath, preventing complete drainage, is soft and spongy. |
| 12 | 354 | In the winter, of course, and in the early spring and late fall, desolate, bleak and frozen, wind-swept, it presents the aspect of a barren, alien landscape. |
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Many people do not understand the nature of the polar north.
For one thing, it is very dry.
Less snow falls there generally than falls in most lower latitudes.
Snow that does fall, of course, is less likely to melt.
Most of the land is tundra, a cool, generally level or slightly wavy, treeless plain.
In the summer this tundra, covered with mosses, shrubs, and lichens, because of the melted surface ice and the permafrost beneath, preventing complete drainage, is soft and spongy.
In the winter, of course, and in the early spring and late fall, desolate, bleak and frozen, wind-swept, it presents the aspect of a barren, alien landscape.
- (Beasts of Gor)