The World of To-day: The Marvels of Nature and the Creations of Man, Volume 1Harry Johnston, Leslie Haden Baron Haden-Guest William H. Wise & Company, 1937 |
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... turning the landscape into one vast carpet of royal purple . This prodigious vineyard is followed by the amazing garden ... turn south to Per- pignan and find first an inhospitable coast of quags and sands , then a little Riviera with ...
... turning the landscape into one vast carpet of royal purple . This prodigious vineyard is followed by the amazing garden ... turn south to Per- pignan and find first an inhospitable coast of quags and sands , then a little Riviera with ...
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... turn into pies . In the Square is the great belfry , which suddenly came down with a crash in 1902 , subsiding into itself like a skirted dancer , and filling all Venice with deluges of dust . So clever are Vene- tian restorers that the ...
... turn into pies . In the Square is the great belfry , which suddenly came down with a crash in 1902 , subsiding into itself like a skirted dancer , and filling all Venice with deluges of dust . So clever are Vene- tian restorers that the ...
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... turn by Carthaginians , Romans , Goths and Moors , but it was the Moors who loved it best and made of it the Garden of Spain . It is to the Moors that the incredible fertility of the soil is due , the luxuriant tropical vegetation and ...
... turn by Carthaginians , Romans , Goths and Moors , but it was the Moors who loved it best and made of it the Garden of Spain . It is to the Moors that the incredible fertility of the soil is due , the luxuriant tropical vegetation and ...
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FRANCE | 9 |
The land and the peopleA rich variety of sceneryThe | 24 |
BELGIUM | 65 |
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