Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 305William Blackwood, 1969 |
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... feet high . I could have touched it with a boathook . A slight swell bumped us heavily on its plinth . The result of his neglect seemed to have shaken Ian , for he had already pulled the cord of the life - raft without troub- ling to ...
... feet high . I could have touched it with a boathook . A slight swell bumped us heavily on its plinth . The result of his neglect seemed to have shaken Ian , for he had already pulled the cord of the life - raft without troub- ling to ...
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... feet by the blast and flopped about like a whale stuck on a sandbank . Stan fought like mad at the controls , with ... feet . The thickness of the rim we estimated to be about a mile at 14,000 feet , with the densest flak along the ...
... feet by the blast and flopped about like a whale stuck on a sandbank . Stan fought like mad at the controls , with ... feet . The thickness of the rim we estimated to be about a mile at 14,000 feet , with the densest flak along the ...
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... feet . By this time I was down to about 400 feet . I seemed to be falling much faster , and found that I was drifting slowly westward . To my surprise I realised that the island was no more than three - quarters of a mile wide at this ...
... feet . By this time I was down to about 400 feet . I seemed to be falling much faster , and found that I was drifting slowly westward . To my surprise I realised that the island was no more than three - quarters of a mile wide at this ...
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JANUARY 1969 VOLUME 305 | 1 |
SURTSEY THE FORBIDDEN ISLAND Esmé Speakman | 13 |
TRUMPETERWHAT ARE YOU SOUNDING NOW? R T | 22 |
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