Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Side 1701899Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Martin Edward Thomas - 2004 - 350 sider
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting . . . I would put my finger on it and say, 'IVhen I grow up I will go there' . . .But there was one... | |
| Dallas Murphy - 2004 - 386 sider
...blank spaces, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map, I would put my ringer on it and say, "When I grow up I will go there." — Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness I am hartily sick of this palgy durty good-for-nothing weather... | |
| Dallas Murphy - 2004 - 386 sider
...Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map, I would put my finger on it and say, "When I grow up I will go there." —Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness... | |
| Lisa Findley - 2005 - 246 sider
...Darkness, Joseph Conrad's tale of the brutal colonization of the Congo, Marlowe remembers: "At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...finger on it and say. When I grow up I will go there." Geographers call this desire generated by maps "the geographical imagination" . And, of course, the... | |
| Robert Marshall - 2005 - 254 sider
...maps. I would look for hours . . . and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map ... I would put my finger on it and say, 'When I grow up I will go there.' — Joseph Conrad, Heart... | |
| Neil Grant - 2014 - 268 sider
...Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were so many blank spaces on the Earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map 178 That's just great, Niags. More shit from Uncle Max's sack of useless crap. But when I turn the... | |
| Hilary Rhodes - 2005 - 48 sider
...or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time, there were many hlank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly in\iting on a map (hut they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, "When 1 grow up I will... | |
| Patricia E. Chu - 2006
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth and when...finger on it and say, 'When I grow up I will go there.' " By this time, Africa has "ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery — a white patch for... | |
| Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Ann Rigney - 2008 - 432 sider
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there, [...] there was one [...] - the biggest, the most blank, so to speak - that I had a hankering after.... | |
| Luis Antonio Vivanco, Robert J. Gordon - 2006 - 342 sider
...Marlow (Conrad's protagonist and alter ego) describes how in his youth, seeing blank spaces on a map he would "put my finger on it and say: When I grow up I will go there ... a blank space of delightful mystery — a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over" (Conrad... | |
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