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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... licences to shoot elephant , buffalo , and deer . As time went on and my experience of the jungle , shooting , and shooters increased , I became more and more prejudiced against my fellow white men . I may have been sometimes over ...
... licences to shoot elephant , buffalo , and deer . As time went on and my experience of the jungle , shooting , and shooters increased , I became more and more prejudiced against my fellow white men . I may have been sometimes over ...
Page 218
... licences and a strange company they were . One Sunday morning when I was working in my bun- galow my boy brought me three cards and said that three gentlemen wanted to see me . A Prince , a Duke , and a Count came into my room : one was ...
... licences and a strange company they were . One Sunday morning when I was working in my bun- galow my boy brought me three cards and said that three gentlemen wanted to see me . A Prince , a Duke , and a Count came into my room : one was ...
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... licences to shoot an elephant , and I un- successfully tried to get the Government to make a regu- lation that the A.G.A. should stop the issue of licences , except in the case of a particular elephant in a particular place which he was ...
... licences to shoot an elephant , and I un- successfully tried to get the Government to make a regu- lation that the A.G.A. should stop the issue of licences , except in the case of a particular elephant in a particular place which he was ...
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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