Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 42 | 10 | The river View more quotes about alone">alone seems a world of nature in its own right, let alone the marvels of its associated terrain. |
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 42 | 7 | A month ago we had eluded the net of vines and, by paddling into the darkness, had escaped our pursuers. |
| 42 | 8 | They would not remain on the river at night. |
| 42 | 9 | It is impossible to convey, in any brief measure, the glory and length of the river, and the hundreds of geographical features, and the varieties of animal and vegetable life characterizing it and its environs. |
| 42 | 10 | The river alone seems a world of nature in its own right, let alone the marvels of its associated terrain. |
| 42 | 11 | It was like a road to wonders, a shining, perilous, enchanted path leading into the heart of rich, hitherto unknown countries. |
| 42 | 12 | It, in its ruggedness, its expanse, its tranquillity, its rages, was like a key to unlock a great portion of a burgeoning continent, a device whereby might be opened a new, fresh world, green, mysterious and vast. |
| 42 | 13 | Not a geographer, I could scarcely conjecture the riches and resources which lay about me. |
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A month ago we had eluded the net of vines and, by paddling into the darkness, had escaped our pursuers.
They would not remain on the river at night.
It is impossible to convey, in any brief measure, the glory and length of the river, and the hundreds of geographical features, and the varieties of animal and vegetable life characterizing it and its environs.
The river alone seems a world of nature in its own right, let alone the marvels of its associated terrain.
It was like a road to wonders, a shining, perilous, enchanted path leading into the heart of rich, hitherto unknown countries.
It, in its ruggedness, its expanse, its tranquillity, its rages, was like a key to unlock a great portion of a burgeoning continent, a device whereby might be opened a new, fresh world, green, mysterious and vast.
Not a geographer, I could scarcely conjecture the riches and resources which lay about me.
- (Explorers of Gor)