Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911The author's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. |
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In the 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 towering up above me ; there is , too , something primeval
and ...
In the 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 towering up above me ; there is , too , something primeval
and ...
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was half - way down , he just launched himself out into space , falling with a crash
on bushes or small trees , and disappeared into the jungle . It was a magnificent
sight , the great deer with his forelegs and hind legs flat out and his antlers flat ...
was half - way down , he just launched himself out into space , falling with a crash
on bushes or small trees , and disappeared into the jungle . It was a magnificent
sight , the great deer with his forelegs and hind legs flat out and his antlers flat ...
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my way through 200 or 300 yards of thick jungle north of the track into an
enormous open clearing , circular , about half a mile or more in diameter . One
used sometimes to see deer , peafowl , or jungle fowl in it and that was why I
used to go ...
my way through 200 or 300 yards of thick jungle north of the track into an
enormous open clearing , circular , about half a mile or more in diameter . One
used sometimes to see deer , peafowl , or jungle fowl in it and that was why I
used to go ...
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User Review - Jenney - LibraryThingIn the feudal society of Ceylon "I felt that there was some depth of happiness rather than pleasure, of satisfaction, . . . which the western world is losing or has lost." (p 158) Judgments such as ... Read full review
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User Review - robertsgirl - LibraryThingThis is the second book Leonard Woolf wrote of his life. He is a graceful author, and a sensitive man. Good look into an aristocratic young britisher and his growing up. Read full review
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| Title | Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911 Volume 2 of An autobiography, Leonard Woolf Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Autobiography, Leonard Woolf |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0701202521, 9780701202521 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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