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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... jungle . It was a magnificent sight , the great deer with his forelegs and hind legs flat out and his antlers flat ... jungle . This kind of beauty of wild animals I never get tired of . But the jungle and jungle life are also horribly ...
... jungle . It was a magnificent sight , the great deer with his forelegs and hind legs flat out and his antlers flat ... jungle . This kind of beauty of wild animals I never get tired of . But the jungle and jungle life are also horribly ...
Page 213
... jungle , go due south , and I would soon strike the track on which I had left the pony . Now I was faced with a circle of jungle a mile or more round this open space , and the wall of trees and leaves was exactly the same all round the ...
... jungle , go due south , and I would soon strike the track on which I had left the pony . Now I was faced with a circle of jungle a mile or more round this open space , and the wall of trees and leaves was exactly the same all round the ...
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... jungle , and I set off towards the light of what I took to be the setting sun . After slow progress through thick thorn jungle for about a quarter of an hour , I came to the conclusion that something was wrong , because I had not ...
... jungle , and I set off towards the light of what I took to be the setting sun . After slow progress through thick thorn jungle for about a quarter of an hour , I came to the conclusion that something was wrong , because I had not ...
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