Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 826 | Diurnal air temperatures in the shade are View more quotes about commonly">commonly in the range of 120 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 1 | 826 | Diurnal air temperatures in the shade are commonly in the range of 120 degrees Fahrenheit. |
| 1 | 827 | Surface temperature, diurnally, is, of course, much higher. |
| 1 | 828 | In the dune country, by day, if one were so unwise as to go barefoot, the bright sand would quickly cripple a man, abrading and burning the flesh from his feet in a matter of hours. |
| 1 | 829 | "It is here," said Samos, pointing to the map, "that the secret lies". |
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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.
Diurnal air temperatures in the shade are commonly in the range of 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
Surface temperature, diurnally, is, of course, much higher.
In the dune country, by day, if one were so unwise as to go barefoot, the bright sand would quickly cripple a man, abrading and burning the flesh from his feet in a matter of hours.
"It is here," said Samos, pointing to the map, "that the secret lies".
- (Tribesmen of Gor)