Barren Lands
Britishplural noun
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Practicing this counsel of perfection, he wandered purposefully to Mexico, California, Alaska, the Barren Lands north of Hudson Bay, the centre of Africa, Siberia, South America, Burma.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has lived a chapped and manly life in rural Ontario, on the Keewatin Barren Lands and in balky old boats off Newfoundland.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Hearne, two hundred years ago, to Mr. Tyrrel or Mr. Whitney in the Barren Lands in 1894-'96, no mention is ever made of a caribou herd exceeding ten thousand.
From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.
"That is a bit of the Barren Lands that creeps down between those mountains off there, M'seur," he said.
From The Danger Trail by Curwood, James Oliver
In America it breeds commonly in the Barren Lands of the Arctic coasts and the Anderson River districts, on the Islands of Franklin and Liverpool bays, nesting in July.
From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 5 November 1897 by Various
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