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... called Dartmoor , which with its mysterious brooding presence has dictated the life and even the appearance of the towns around it . The Moor is a giganitc tableland of granite unadorned except for the great stone blocks called tors ...
... called Dartmoor , which with its mysterious brooding presence has dictated the life and even the appearance of the towns around it . The Moor is a giganitc tableland of granite unadorned except for the great stone blocks called tors ...
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... called them hackbutters . A group of these hackbutters would usually be sent out in front of the pikemen where they stood in such a hopelessly exposed position that the English called them ' the forlorn hope ' , and the French called ...
... called them hackbutters . A group of these hackbutters would usually be sent out in front of the pikemen where they stood in such a hopelessly exposed position that the English called them ' the forlorn hope ' , and the French called ...
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... called Orejones . They had captured all of the land lying between the two great rivers and had founded a capital city called Manoa on a large inland lake known as the Lake of Parima . This eastward flight also explained the puzzling ...
... called Orejones . They had captured all of the land lying between the two great rivers and had founded a capital city called Manoa on a large inland lake known as the Lake of Parima . This eastward flight also explained the puzzling ...
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List of Illustrations | 7 |
Foreword | 9 |
Acknowledgments II | 11 |
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