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It was as lonely a life as any man and woman could lead any- where in the British Isles short of the Outer Hebrides . And this within fifty miles of London , a dozen miles of the brash seaside metropolis of Southend .
It was as lonely a life as any man and woman could lead any- where in the British Isles short of the Outer Hebrides . And this within fifty miles of London , a dozen miles of the brash seaside metropolis of Southend .
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inland almost to Alice Springs - an area of nearly one and a half million square miles . Mt Samson , Peelan- gootharana Peak , the Chichesters , Mumbillina Bluff , Pilbara Creek , and then we were over the Yule River , the flat coastal ...
inland almost to Alice Springs - an area of nearly one and a half million square miles . Mt Samson , Peelan- gootharana Peak , the Chichesters , Mumbillina Bluff , Pilbara Creek , and then we were over the Yule River , the flat coastal ...
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an hour ; uphill you may be reduced to five or six miles an hour . It feels very slow , but you do overtake pedestrians - even on a hill . However , the electric car would crawl happily up two inclined planks onto the back of a lorry ...
an hour ; uphill you may be reduced to five or six miles an hour . It feels very slow , but you do overtake pedestrians - even on a hill . However , the electric car would crawl happily up two inclined planks onto the back of a lorry ...
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