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It is full of trees and changing leaves , and therefore completely unlike the open
scrub jungle of the great treeless stretches of sand which in the south you often
find alternating with thick jungle . But it is also quite different from the brilliant ...
It is full of trees and changing leaves , and therefore completely unlike the open
scrub jungle of the great treeless stretches of sand which in the south you often
find alternating with thick jungle . But it is also quite different from the brilliant ...
Page 118
Everything was completely dried up , not a sign or sound of life anywhere , not a
drop of water , not a speck of mud in any ... the heavens opened , and I rode back
in drenching rain through a world which had completely changed in an hour .
Everything was completely dried up , not a sign or sound of life anywhere , not a
drop of water , not a speck of mud in any ... the heavens opened , and I rode back
in drenching rain through a world which had completely changed in an hour .
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Darkness began to fall and soon I had completely lost my way . The sandy track
in the wilderness of sand was quite invisible and there were no villages and no
inhabitants . All I could do was to look at the stars and ride south and trust to luck .
Darkness began to fall and soon I had completely lost my way . The sandy track
in the wilderness of sand was quite invisible and there were no villages and no
inhabitants . All I could do was to look at the stars and ride south and trust to luck .
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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