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Page 393
... once dismissed as " the unchanging East . " Postwar upheavals , crowded into a dynamic decade , have made nonsense of this phrase and altered the whole face of the Orient . As new nations have won their inde- pendence and old boundaries ...
... once dismissed as " the unchanging East . " Postwar upheavals , crowded into a dynamic decade , have made nonsense of this phrase and altered the whole face of the Orient . As new nations have won their inde- pendence and old boundaries ...
Page 408
and the broken arm of a once mighty arch that had collapsed . As time is measured in geological formations , it had fallen only re- cently , for the broken edges were little eroded . Numerous large rocks that once formed its span lay ...
and the broken arm of a once mighty arch that had collapsed . As time is measured in geological formations , it had fallen only re- cently , for the broken edges were little eroded . Numerous large rocks that once formed its span lay ...
Page 869
... once been a ceremonial way . It is paved where it passes through a wadi and chipped into steps where it mounts a cliff ; in places great slices of rock have been quar- ried away to dignify the path for whatever strange processions may ...
... once been a ceremonial way . It is paved where it passes through a wadi and chipped into steps where it mounts a cliff ; in places great slices of rock have been quar- ried away to dignify the path for whatever strange processions may ...
Contents
Iceland to Antarctica A National Geographic Cartographer Goes | vi |
The Incredible Kangaroo Australias Famous Marsupial Sits on Its Tail | xxv |
Utahs River of Arches A Pack Trip Through Littleknown Canyons | xxx |
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