On the Road to KhivaH.S. King, 1874 - 359 páginas |
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... seen only one - half ( the most important half , it is true ) of Central Asia ; and as soon as I have recovered the effects of my last attempt ( for it is no light thing to cross one thousand three hundred miles of desert under heavy ...
... seen only one - half ( the most important half , it is true ) of Central Asia ; and as soon as I have recovered the effects of my last attempt ( for it is no light thing to cross one thousand three hundred miles of desert under heavy ...
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... seen , often enough to be heartily sick of them , the tall , scraggy , coffee - pot churches , and " statues long after the antique , " of hot , dusty , cosmopolitan Odessa . I have surveyed the 99 little cluster of white houses which ...
... seen , often enough to be heartily sick of them , the tall , scraggy , coffee - pot churches , and " statues long after the antique , " of hot , dusty , cosmopolitan Odessa . I have surveyed the 99 little cluster of white houses which ...
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... seen creeping among the débris of the great earth - slide , like the gnomes of Swartheim " toiling in the secret places of the earth . " As we mount higher , the chill mountain blasts make themselves felt in earnest ; and when at length ...
... seen creeping among the débris of the great earth - slide , like the gnomes of Swartheim " toiling in the secret places of the earth . " As we mount higher , the chill mountain blasts make themselves felt in earnest ; and when at length ...
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... seen . My stand - point is the crown of the great central ridge which forms the back - bone of the Caucasus , looking down into Europe on one side and Asia on the other . Far down the incline , the endless curves of the road by which we ...
... seen . My stand - point is the crown of the great central ridge which forms the back - bone of the Caucasus , looking down into Europe on one side and Asia on the other . Far down the incline , the endless curves of the road by which we ...
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... seen steamer looms like a gigantic coffin . Amid such surroundings any shape of horror seems congenial . It needs little imagination to body from the encircling mist the grim ferryman of the shades with his ghastly freight , or the ...
... seen steamer looms like a gigantic coffin . Amid such surroundings any shape of horror seems congenial . It needs little imagination to body from the encircling mist the grim ferryman of the shades with his ghastly freight , or the ...
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