The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 112National Geographic Society, 1957 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... ground speed to be 142 miles an hour . If it held , we would reach İstanbul at 7:30 after a total flight of nearly five hours . Fifteen minutes later the engine spluttered as the right tank ran dry , and I switched over to the left ...
... ground speed to be 142 miles an hour . If it held , we would reach İstanbul at 7:30 after a total flight of nearly five hours . Fifteen minutes later the engine spluttered as the right tank ran dry , and I switched over to the left ...
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... ground is dark , except where a shaft of light slants downward as if through the rose window of a cathedral . The air is moist . A water moccasin winds by lazily , hardly visible . There's a tapping of the pileated woodpecker , with ...
... ground is dark , except where a shaft of light slants downward as if through the rose window of a cathedral . The air is moist . A water moccasin winds by lazily , hardly visible . There's a tapping of the pileated woodpecker , with ...
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... ground safely ? An old rancher once gave me an explana- tion : " I seen it happen , " he related solemnly . " Them little ones each grabs a big goose feather , that curved kind off the back , and they just spindle down like a helio ...
... ground safely ? An old rancher once gave me an explana- tion : " I seen it happen , " he related solemnly . " Them little ones each grabs a big goose feather , that curved kind off the back , and they just spindle down like a helio ...
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