Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 328William Blackwood, 1980 - England |
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Yet the attraction of the southern desert , the Rub al Khali , magnetised travellers such as Thomas , who wrote in 1932 : ' The virgin Rub ' al Khali , the Great Southern Desert ! To have laboured in Arabia is to have tasted inevitably ...
Yet the attraction of the southern desert , the Rub al Khali , magnetised travellers such as Thomas , who wrote in 1932 : ' The virgin Rub ' al Khali , the Great Southern Desert ! To have laboured in Arabia is to have tasted inevitably ...
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After a year of its bucolic fastness , he wrote that ' Nothing can equal the profound , the unmeasurable , the awful dulness of this place , in the which I lie dead and buried , in hopes of a joyful resurrection in the year 1796 ' .
After a year of its bucolic fastness , he wrote that ' Nothing can equal the profound , the unmeasurable , the awful dulness of this place , in the which I lie dead and buried , in hopes of a joyful resurrection in the year 1796 ' .
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Neither attracted the English public , and in terms of sales Lawson was less successful than his young protégée , Miles Franklin , for whose My Brilliant Career he wrote a generous preface . Despite all his own difficulties he had kept ...
Neither attracted the English public , and in terms of sales Lawson was less successful than his young protégée , Miles Franklin , for whose My Brilliant Career he wrote a generous preface . Despite all his own difficulties he had kept ...
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