The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, Through the Upper Valleys of the HimálayaBlackwood, 1875 - 475 էջ |
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... seemed to me of much more importance to convey a general idea of that vast and little - known district of mountainous country than to present a detailed plan of my own route ; for only those who are in , or are about to enter , the ...
... seemed to me of much more importance to convey a general idea of that vast and little - known district of mountainous country than to present a detailed plan of my own route ; for only those who are in , or are about to enter , the ...
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... seemed to them best fitted to procure uniformity in the spelling of Indian names , which is an end of so great import- ance that I have deemed it right to follow the Govern- ment system of spelling , but not as a very advanced or always ...
... seemed to them best fitted to procure uniformity in the spelling of Indian names , which is an end of so great import- ance that I have deemed it right to follow the Govern- ment system of spelling , but not as a very advanced or always ...
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... seemed almost impossible for so unwieldy - looking an animal , left a very distinct and lively impression on my mind as to the utter hopeless- ness of my ever attempting to escape from a wild one . Many and interesting were the stories ...
... seemed almost impossible for so unwieldy - looking an animal , left a very distinct and lively impression on my mind as to the utter hopeless- ness of my ever attempting to escape from a wild one . Many and interesting were the stories ...
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... seemed sunk as in a gloomy ocean , bounded by a huge coral - reef . But above this , dazzling and glorious in the sunlight , high up in the deep blue heavens , there rose a white shining line of gigantic " icy summits reared in air ...
... seemed sunk as in a gloomy ocean , bounded by a huge coral - reef . But above this , dazzling and glorious in the sunlight , high up in the deep blue heavens , there rose a white shining line of gigantic " icy summits reared in air ...
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... seemed . to imagine that to describe any official as " a malin- gerer at Simla " was sufficient to blast his future life . Even the roses and the rhododendrons , the strawberries and the peaches , of that " Circean retreat , " come in ...
... seemed . to imagine that to describe any official as " a malin- gerer at Simla " was sufficient to blast his future life . Even the roses and the rhododendrons , the strawberries and the peaches , of that " Circean retreat , " come in ...
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The Abode of Snow: Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the ... Andrew Wilson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1875 |
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