{"id":7060,"date":"2019-06-15T05:36:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T04:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=7060"},"modified":"2019-06-15T05:36:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T04:36:38","slug":"in-northern-mists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2019\/06\/15\/in-northern-mists\/","title":{"rendered":"In northern mists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free on Archive.org, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/innorthernmistsa001nans\">In northern mists: Arctic exploration in early times<\/a><\/em> (1911) Vol. 1, and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/innorthernmistsa002nans\/page\/n7\">Vol 2.<\/a> It&#8217;s a deep history of the discovery of the high northern lands, with plenty of well-scanned hand-drawn maps. &#8220;Early&#8221; here means from the Greeks to the discovery of North America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/inset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/inset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"654\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7061\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.ac.uk\/media-post\/new-arctic-map\/\">one-sheet map<\/a> will help readers of such books orient themselves, although it doesn&#8217;t cover the integral area that lies a little further east &mdash; where Finnish culture leaps the dividing channel of water and shades down into the lake-country of what is now Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/greenland-and-the-european-arctic-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/greenland-and-the-european-arctic-map.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"497\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7076\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free on Archive.org, In northern mists: Arctic exploration in early times (1911) Vol. 1, and Vol 2. It&#8217;s a deep history of the discovery of the high northern lands, with plenty of well-scanned hand-drawn maps. &#8220;Early&#8221; here means from the Greeks to the discovery of North America. A new one-sheet map will help readers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}