Northwest Greenland Expedition

Famous quotes containing the words northwest, greenland and/or expedition:

    “I got my first clear view of Ktaadn, on this excursion, from a hill about two miles northwest of Bangor, whither I went for this purpose. After this I was ready to return to Massachusetts.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

    “Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.”
    —Janet Frame (b. 1924)