Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pages |
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... forest . Following along one terrace into the uncleared forest beyond , they suddenly saw them , the Inca ruined houses , covered with the trees and moss of centuries ; and , in the shadow of bamboo thickets and tangled vines , there ...
... forest . Following along one terrace into the uncleared forest beyond , they suddenly saw them , the Inca ruined houses , covered with the trees and moss of centuries ; and , in the shadow of bamboo thickets and tangled vines , there ...
Page 374
... forest and clearing , the frisking monkeys , and , above all , the long reaches of the mysterious , exotic past ... forest which engulfed them . Pushing through the eighty miles or so of jungle from Anuradhapura along the forest tracks ...
... forest and clearing , the frisking monkeys , and , above all , the long reaches of the mysterious , exotic past ... forest which engulfed them . Pushing through the eighty miles or so of jungle from Anuradhapura along the forest tracks ...
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... forest for picturesqueness , enough clearance for safety and for lucidity . It is possible that the romantic visitors of twenty years back find Ta Prohm now less to their mind . Perhaps too the great wilderness outside the walls which ...
... forest for picturesqueness , enough clearance for safety and for lucidity . It is possible that the romantic visitors of twenty years back find Ta Prohm now less to their mind . Perhaps too the great wilderness outside the walls which ...
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