Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 822 | In areas it has been centuries between rains. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 819 | The View more quotes about gorean">Gorean expression for this area simply means the Wastes, or the Emptiness. |
| 1 | 820 | It is a vast area, and generally rocky, and hilly, save in the dune country. |
| 1 | 821 | It is almost constantly windblown and almost waterless. |
| 1 | 822 | In areas it has been centuries between rains. |
| 1 | 823 | Its oases are fed from underground rivers flowing southeastward from the Voltai slopes. |
| 1 | 824 | The water, seeping underground, eventually, in places, due to rock formations, erupts in oasis springs, or, more usually, is reached by deep wells, some of them more than two hundred feet deep. |
| 1 | 825 | It takes more than a hundred and fifty years for some of this water to make the underground journey, seeping hundreds of feet at times beneath the dry surface, moving only a few miles a year, to reach the oases. |
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The Gorean expression for this area simply means the Wastes, or the Emptiness.
It is a vast area, and generally rocky, and hilly, save in the dune country.
It is almost constantly windblown and almost waterless.
In areas it has been centuries between rains.
Its oases are fed from underground rivers flowing southeastward from the Voltai slopes.
The water, seeping underground, eventually, in places, due to rock formations, erupts in oasis springs, or, more usually, is reached by deep wells, some of them more than two hundred feet deep.
It takes more than a hundred and fifty years for some of this water to make the underground journey, seeping hundreds of feet at times beneath the dry surface, moving only a few miles a year, to reach the oases.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)