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 175
... Tissamaharama with a major irrigation work and a resident white Irrigation Engineer . Here was a great stretch of paddy fields irrigated from the tank and a considerable population of cultivators . Besides producing rice at Tissa ...
... Tissamaharama with a major irrigation work and a resident white Irrigation Engineer . Here was a great stretch of paddy fields irrigated from the tank and a considerable population of cultivators . Besides producing rice at Tissa ...
Page 212
... Tissamaharama to deal with irrigation , cultivation , and judicial work there . My carts went by road , but there was a track through the jungle which one could ride on and cut off about 12 miles of the cart road . I nearly always rode ...
... Tissamaharama to deal with irrigation , cultivation , and judicial work there . My carts went by road , but there was a track through the jungle which one could ride on and cut off about 12 miles of the cart road . I nearly always rode ...
Page 220
... Tissamaharama to hold an enquiry , and I left directions for Herr Hagenbeck and the Baron to be sent on to me there . They arrived in a motor - car two or three days later . Baron Axel Blixen was a middle - aged man with mutton - chop ...
... Tissamaharama to hold an enquiry , and I left directions for Herr Hagenbeck and the Baron to be sent on to me there . They arrived in a motor - car two or three days later . Baron Axel Blixen was a middle - aged man with mutton - chop ...
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