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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... Tissa , I sometimes used to start after I had done a day's work in Hambantota and spend the night at Weligatta circuit bungalow eight miles along the Tissa road in order to get to Tissa 213 HAMBANTOTA.
... Tissa , I sometimes used to start after I had done a day's work in Hambantota and spend the night at Weligatta circuit bungalow eight miles along the Tissa road in order to get to Tissa 213 HAMBANTOTA.
Page 214
An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911 Leonard Woolf. along the Tissa road in order to get to Tissa as early as possible next morning . My carts and servants went by road and I rode , cutting across country through scrub jungle . One ...
An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911 Leonard Woolf. along the Tissa road in order to get to Tissa as early as possible next morning . My carts and servants went by road and I rode , cutting across country through scrub jungle . One ...
Page 221
... Tissa . I cannot now remember exactly what he showed me , but certainly several deer and I rather think a bear . His terror that I should abandon him in the Ceylon jungles before he found Count Frijs may , of course , have affected his ...
... Tissa . I cannot now remember exactly what he showed me , but certainly several deer and I rather think a bear . His terror that I should abandon him in the Ceylon jungles before he found Count Frijs may , of course , have affected his ...
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