Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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... Engelbrecht , a Boer from the Orange Free State . A considerable number of Boers who fought and were captured in the Boer War were sent to Ceylon and were interned in camps up country . Engelbrecht was one of them . When the war was ...
... Engelbrecht , a Boer from the Orange Free State . A considerable number of Boers who fought and were captured in the Boer War were sent to Ceylon and were interned in camps up country . Engelbrecht was one of them . When the war was ...
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... Engelbrecht shot a she - bear and then found a small bear cub in the grass nearby . He took the cub and reared it . He had a small Sinhalese boy who drove his bullock cart and the bear became passionately devoted to the boy . I have ...
... Engelbrecht shot a she - bear and then found a small bear cub in the grass nearby . He took the cub and reared it . He had a small Sinhalese boy who drove his bullock cart and the bear became passionately devoted to the boy . I have ...
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... Engelbrecht knew even better than I. At first one could see nothing in the cave , but when our eyes grew accustomed to the semi - darkness Engelbrecht and I both saw the tail of the leopard protruding from behind the boulder . I had two ...
... Engelbrecht knew even better than I. At first one could see nothing in the cave , but when our eyes grew accustomed to the semi - darkness Engelbrecht and I both saw the tail of the leopard protruding from behind the boulder . I had two ...
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