Here's another note on false blues:
Karl Ernst von Baer, a popular biologist/morphologist, who had moved to St. Petersburg and was active there until 1876, was one of the first explorers to visit Nova Zembla. Von Baer published two articles "Sketch of animal life in Nova Zembla" and "On the recent Russian expeditions to Novaia Zemlia." The latter emphasizes the colorlessness of the air that far North, pointing to the unreliability of Kinbote, who emphasizes a very blue Zemblan sky.
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