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Page 56
He even stands about six hundred feet lower than his rival , San Gorgonio , across the pass to the north in the San Bernardino Range . Yet in effect he does not , because there is no softening foreground of foothills to break the rise ...
He even stands about six hundred feet lower than his rival , San Gorgonio , across the pass to the north in the San Bernardino Range . Yet in effect he does not , because there is no softening foreground of foothills to break the rise ...
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One had only to drive up to the Aqueduct Road , which in this neighborhood ran close to the foot of the Little San Bernardinos along the line of the Los Angeles aqueduct coming across the range from the Parker Dam to the east on the ...
One had only to drive up to the Aqueduct Road , which in this neighborhood ran close to the foot of the Little San Bernardinos along the line of the Los Angeles aqueduct coming across the range from the Parker Dam to the east on the ...
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Oatman lies along the winding Gold Road after it has dropped from the pass over the range into lesser hills . The buildings of the town , strung along the road and scattered about the hillsides , are set against an immense backdrop of ...
Oatman lies along the winding Gold Road after it has dropped from the pass over the range into lesser hills . The buildings of the town , strung along the road and scattered about the hillsides , are set against an immense backdrop of ...
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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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