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Page 118
I remember one year riding in the morning from my bungalow on the seashore to
the kachcheri through a dead brown world. Everything was completely dried up,
not a sign or sound of life anywhere, not a drop of water, not a speck of mud in ...
I remember one year riding in the morning from my bungalow on the seashore to
the kachcheri through a dead brown world. Everything was completely dried up,
not a sign or sound of life anywhere, not a drop of water, not a speck of mud in ...
Page 122
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.
Page 185
The evening was warm and fine; the world about us was completely empty
except for the darkening sky above our heads and the unending road beneath
our feet. Abdul Rahman was not a good walker and the Salt Superintendent, a
large ...
The evening was warm and fine; the world about us was completely empty
except for the darkening sky above our heads and the unending road beneath
our feet. Abdul Rahman was not a good walker and the Salt Superintendent, a
large ...
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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 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Political scientists Sri Lanka |
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