The Challenge of the North [Hardcover]

James Hendryx (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 30, 2007

The professor crossed one long, lean leg over the other, and punched down the ashes in his pipe-bowl with the square tip of his middle finger. The thermometer on the shady veranda marked eighty-seven degrees of heat, and nature wooed the soul to languor and revery; but nothing could abate the energy of this bony sage. "They talk about their Atlantises,-their submerged conti-nents!" he exclaimed, with a sniff through his wide, hairy nostrils. "Why, Trednoke, do you realize that we are living literally at the bottom of a Mesozoic-at any rate, Cenozoic -sea?" The gentleman thus indignantly addressed contemplated his questioner with the serenity of one conscious of freedom from geologic responsibility. He was a man of about the professor's age,-say, sixty years,-but not like him in appearance. His figure was stately and massive,-that of one who in his youth must have possessed vast physical strength, rigidly developed and disciplined. Well set upon his broad shoulders was a noble head, crowned with gray, wavy hair; the eyes and eyebrows were black and powerful, but the expression was kindly and humorous.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society (December 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1421897539
• ISBN-13: 978-1421897530
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)