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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Page 210
... jungle the wild 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 ...
... jungle the wild 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 ...
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 ...
Page 214
... 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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