{"product_id":"the-challenge-of-the-north-9781421897530","title":"The Challenge of the North","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James Hendryx | 1stworld Library\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: 1st World Library - Literary Society\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"1st World Library - Literary Society","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47611787444375,"sku":"9781421897530","price":1871.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781421897530.webp?v=1775072892","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-challenge-of-the-north-9781421897530","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}