 Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pagina 1701899Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1900 - 872 pagine
...when I saw one that looVed particularly inviting on a map (bit they all looked that) I would put mj finger on It and say: When I grow up I will go there....haven't been there yet, and shall not try now. The glamor's off. Other places were scattered about the equator, and in every sort of latitude all over... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 402 pagine
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...that) I would put my finger on it and sa.y, When I gfow up I will go there. The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven't been there... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 394 pagine
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, Whe? I grow up I will go there. The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven't... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 pagine
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one*that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it... | |
 | David Greenhood - 1964 - 310 pagine
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there . . . That is, a map seems to say to you, don't just stand there— and it's your imagination that... | |
 | Christopher L. Miller - 1985 - 294 pagine
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, 1 haven't been there yet, and shall not try now. The glamour's off. Other places were scattered about... | |
 | Christopher L. Miller - 1985 - 292 pagine
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...would put my finger on it and say, 'When I grow up 1 will go there.' The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, 1 haven't been there yet,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1990 - 84 pagine
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, 1 haven'l been there yet, and shall not try now. The glamor's off. Other places were scattered about... | |
 | Robert D. Hamner - 1990 - 294 pagine
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there. (VI, 52) Years later one blank space had become a place of darkness. But there was in it one river... | |
 | Denis Wood, John Fels - 1992 - 260 pagine
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) 1 would put my finger on it and say, "When I grow up I will go there."50 Observations like this have... | |
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