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70 as most outsiders go to it to do , but only to spend an idle and restorative week or two in the desert . I had been in the place with my family in February and had picked it as most suited to my needs .
70 as most outsiders go to it to do , but only to spend an idle and restorative week or two in the desert . I had been in the place with my family in February and had picked it as most suited to my needs .
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71 if instead of going through the pass , he stays on the hither side of the range and turns straight east he will come to Desert Hot Springs , of little fame . Indeed , it is known ( or used to be known ) as “ the poor man's Palm ...
71 if instead of going through the pass , he stays on the hither side of the range and turns straight east he will come to Desert Hot Springs , of little fame . Indeed , it is known ( or used to be known ) as “ the poor man's Palm ...
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The Desert Informative books on the Mojave and Colorado Deserts are three by Edmund C. Jaeger , for many years a zoologist at Riverside Junior College ( now the University of California , Riverside ) : The California Deserts , 2nd ed .
The Desert Informative books on the Mojave and Colorado Deserts are three by Edmund C. Jaeger , for many years a zoologist at Riverside Junior College ( now the University of California , Riverside ) : The California Deserts , 2nd ed .
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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