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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Arizona Nights (Hardcover)
Stewart Edward White; Edited by 1stworld Library
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R647
Discovery Miles 6 470
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The ring around the sun had thickened all day long, and the
turquoise blue of the Arizona sky had filmed. Storms in the dry
countries are infrequent, but heavy; and this surely meant storm.
We had ridden since sun-up over broad mesas, down and out of deep
canons, along the base of the mountain in the wildest parts of the
territory. The cattle were winding leisurely toward the high
country; the jack rabbits had disappeared; the quail lacked; we did
not see a single antelope in the open.
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The Mountains (Hardcover)
Stewart Edward White; Edited by 1stworld Library
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R619
Discovery Miles 6 190
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Six trails lead to the main ridge. They are all good trails, so
that even the casual tourist in the little Spanish-American town on
the seacoast need have nothing to fear from the ascent. In some
spots they contract to an arm's length of space, outside of which
limit they drop sheer away; elsewhere they stand up on end, zigzag
in lacets each more hair-raising than the last, or fill to
demoralization with loose boulders and shale. A fall on the part of
your horse would mean a more than serious accident; but Western
horses do not fall. The major premise stands: even the casual
tourist has no real reason for fear, however scared he may become.
Our favorite route to the main ridge was by a way called the Cold
Spring Trail. We used to enjoy taking visitors up it, mainly
because you come on the top suddenly, without warning. Then we
collected remarks. Everybody, even the most stolid, said something.
The girl stood on a bank above a river flowing north. At her back
crouched a dozen clean whitewashed buildings. Before her in
interminable journey, day after day, league on league into
remoteness, stretched the stern Northern wilderness, untrodden save
by the trappers, the Indians, and the beasts. Close about the
little settlement crept the balsams and spruce, the birch and
poplar, behind which lurked vast dreary muskegs, a chaos of
bowlder-splits, the forest. The girl had known nothing different
for many years. Once a summer the sailing ship from England felt
its frozen way through the Hudson Straits, down the Hudson Bay, to
drop anchor in the mighty River of the Moose. Once a summer a
six-fathom canoe manned by a dozen addles struggled down the waters
of the broken Abitibi. Once a year a little band of red-sashed
voyageurs forced their exhausted sledge-dogs across the ice from
some unseen wilderness trail. That was all.
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Gold (Hardcover)
Stewart Edward White, Eugene Francis Saxton
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R1,020
Discovery Miles 10 200
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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