20 лучших повестей на английском / 20 Best Short Novels

the Klondike strike  – the Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s on the Klondike River, a tributary of the Yukon River in Canada

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Frisco  – San Francisco, a city and port in northern California, a cultural and financial centre of the western USA, founded as a military post by the Spanish in 1776

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sou  – a French coin of low value (no longer in use)

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squarehead  – slang simpleton, blockhead

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Seattle  – the largest city of the northwest Pacific alongside Puget Sound, founded in 1851

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the goose hang high = everything is OK

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Sacredam!  – Damn! ( French-English )

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Spitzbergen  – a large island in the Arctic Ocean north of the Arctic Circle, a part of Norway

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the Barrens  – a treeless area near Hudson Bay – an inland sea in east-central Canada

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Queen Charlotte Sound  – a deep inlet of the North Pacific Ocean in Canada

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the Dyea  – a river and town in the Rocky Mountains in Canada

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Sheep Camp, the Scales  – small settlements in the Rocky Mountains

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the Chilcoot Divide  – a pass in the Rocky Mountains used by the prospectors as a way to the lands rich in gold

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Lake Bennett  – a lake in the Rocky Mountains

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webbed shoes  – a kind of skis that look like tennis rackets, and are used for walking on powdery snow

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Lake Le Barge  – a lake in Canada

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pandemonium  – wild and noisy disorder

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Dawson  – a city in Canada on the border with Alaska, at the confluence of the Klondike and the Yukon rivers; it was named after geologist George Dawson

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the Thirty Mile River  – a river in northwestern Canada

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the Hootalinqua  – a river in Canada

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the Big Salmon, the Little Salmon, the Five Fingers  – posts in northwestern Canada

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the Pelly  – a small river in Canada, a tributary of the Yukon

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aurora borealis  – northern lights, a luminous atmospheric phenomenon in the Northern Hemisphere

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the Yukon  – a river in North America; it flows through northwestern Canada and the central regions of Alaska, US

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Salt Water  – fort on the Yukon River

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Sixty Miles  – fort on the Yukon River

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Northwest Police  – a mounted police founded in 1873 by the Canadian government to maintain order in the wild lands in the northwest of the country

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the White Horse Rapids  – rapids near the town of Whitehorse on the Yukon River

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Marsh, Tagish  – lakes in the Rocky Mountains

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White Pass  – a pass in the Rocky Mountains used as access to the lands rich in gold

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Skaguay  – a town in southwestern Alaska, US, founded in the 1890s at the time of the gold rush

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Cassiar Bar  – a bank at the foot of the Cassiar Mountains

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Hudson Bay dogs  – a local husky breed

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Outside dogs  – coll. dogs from other regions; inside dogs  – coll. dogs of local breed

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Q. E. D.  – quod erat demonstrandum = which had to be proved ( Latin )

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the Tanana  – a river in east-central Alaska

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Circle City  – a town on the Yukon River in Alaska

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the Forty-Mile Creek  – a tributary of the Yukon River

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totem-pole  – a vertical carved and painted log constructed by the Indians in the northwest of the USA and in Canada to commemorate smb. or smth.

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Bonanza King  – a person who became rich quickly during the gold rush; gold round the Bonanza Creek, a stream near Dawson, was found in 1896

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Mastodon King  – a very rich man

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the Stewart River  – a river in Canada

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the Mayo, the McQuestion  – small rivers in Canada and settlements of the same name

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Hudson Bay Company  – a prominent company in the history of Canada, established in 1670 to explore the Pacific coast, occupy the lands and develop profitable trade with the Indians

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the Yeehats  – an Indian tribe

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Haeckel  – Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), a German zoologist and embryologist

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Boston  – a city on Massachusetts Bay in the northeastern United States

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plebian  – of low social class

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Bunsen burner  – a device consisting of a metal tube on a base with a gas inlet, the forerunner of the gas-stove burner; named for Robert Bunsen, the German chemist who developed it in 1855

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daemoniac  – devilish

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cacophony  – unpleasant mixture of sounds, usually very loud

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Puritanism  – a religious movement of the 16th-17th centuries aimed at purifying the Christian Church

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Ptolemaism  – the mathematical Earth-centred model of the universe known as the Ptolemaic system; named for Ptolemy (100–170), an astronomer, geographer and mathematician of Greek origin

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