The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 54National Geographic Society, 1929 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 253
... flying on schedule . Now west again , past fields where once a repentant king ate grass . Then over a long file of mule - riding Persian pilgrims , taking their mummified dead to holy graves at Kerbela , shrine of the Prophet's kinsman ...
... flying on schedule . Now west again , past fields where once a repentant king ate grass . Then over a long file of mule - riding Persian pilgrims , taking their mummified dead to holy graves at Kerbela , shrine of the Prophet's kinsman ...
Page 273
... flying over a land no human eye ever before had seen from the sky . But clouds soon hid the earth . We rode on top of them , in dazzling morning sunshine , on a field white as snow . I watched my compass carefully , so as not to miss my ...
... flying over a land no human eye ever before had seen from the sky . But clouds soon hid the earth . We rode on top of them , in dazzling morning sunshine , on a field white as snow . I watched my compass carefully , so as not to miss my ...
Page 372
... fly- ing with heavy over- loads and long - dis- tance oversea flying . Both are compara- tively new angles to flying , and we were as ignorant of them as our Australian critics until we reached the United States . We began properly to ...
... fly- ing with heavy over- loads and long - dis- tance oversea flying . Both are compara- tively new angles to flying , and we were as ignorant of them as our Australian critics until we reached the United States . We began properly to ...
Contents
The Traditional Island Birthplace of Venus is One of the Least | 1 |
Venice Home City of Marco Polo 8 illustrations 559 | 353 |
Womans Winter on Spitsbergen A BV MARTHA PHILLIPS GILSON 227 | 505 |
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