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.
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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 ...
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... 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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1817 LIBRARIES afternoon Anuradhapura Arabs Arachchi asked Assistant Government Agent Baron Blixen became boat Buddhist buffaloes bullock cart bungalow cattle Ceylon Civil Service CHIGAN civil servant Colombo Court curious deal deer District Dutton Elephant Pass Empress Empress Eugénie Engelbrecht extremely face felt Game Sanctuary Giruwa Pattu Governor Hambantota Hambantota District head headmen Jaffna kachcheri Kandy Kandyan Kataragama kind knew koddu lagoon Leonard Woolf leopard letter to Lytton lewaya licences lived looked Magampattu Mannar ment MICHIGAN miles mind months morning never night Office Assistant one's oysters Pearl Fishery planters play Police Magistrate Province remember Rest House riding rinderpest road round salt sand seemed shooting side Sinhalese Southorn strange suddenly Superintendent of Police talked Tamil Tangalla temple tennis thing Tissa Tissamaharama told took town trees Twynam Uva Province verandah village Walasmulla walked water hole Woolf