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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... Elephant Pass . As we approached Elephant Pass in the early morning , the country gradu- ally changed . The thick jungle thinned out into scrub jungle and then into stretches of sand broken by patches of scrub . Then suddenly we came ...
... Elephant Pass . As we approached Elephant Pass in the early morning , the country gradu- ally changed . The thick jungle thinned out into scrub jungle and then into stretches of sand broken by patches of scrub . Then suddenly we came ...
Page 123
... elephant hunters — the name , I rather think , was in Sinhalese Pannikkiya . They had a method of catching elephants handed down from time immemorial . Two of them went out into the jungle each carrying a strong rope . When they found a ...
... elephant hunters — the name , I rather think , was in Sinhalese Pannikkiya . They had a method of catching elephants handed down from time immemorial . Two of them went out into the jungle each carrying a strong rope . When they found a ...
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... elephant was always to me the most alarming of all the animals . Coming upon him suddenly , as I so often did , in thick jungle he seemed to me gigantic tower- ing up above me ; there is , too , something primeval and malignant about ...
... elephant was always to me the most alarming of all the animals . Coming upon him suddenly , as I so often did , in thick jungle he seemed to me gigantic tower- ing up above me ; there is , too , something primeval and malignant about ...
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