 Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pàgina 1701899Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Roslynn Doris Haynes - 1998 - 406 pàgines
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would ptit my finger on ii and say, When I grow up I will go there. The North Pole was one of those places.... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - 1998 - 306 pàgines
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they a!l look that) I would put my finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there. 9 Said describes... | |
 | Parama Roy - 2023 - 252 pàgines
...satisfyingly numerous blank spaces that left room for the enactment of imperial fantasies. At that urne there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map ... I would put my finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there. ... I have been in some of... | |
 | Franco Moretti - 1999 - 232 pàgines
...Ouida Under Two Flags 1 Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps [. . .] At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there [...]! have been in some of them, and . . . well, we won't talk about that. But there was one yet -... | |
 | Mark Polelle - 1999 - 184 pàgines
...South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...particularly inviting on a map (but they all look like that) I would put my finger on it and say, "When I grow up I will go there." -Joseph Conrad, Heart... | |
 | Peter Edgerly Firchow - 2000 - 298 pàgines
...South America, or Africa, or Australia and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth and when...places I remember. Well, I haven't been there yet and I shall not try now. The glamour's off. Other places were scattered about the Equator and in every... | |
 | Stephen Hussey, Paul Thompson - 2000 - 248 pàgines
...particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say. When I grow up / will go there. The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven't been there vet, and I shall not try now. The glamour's off. J. Conrad, Heart of Darkness (London, 1995 [1902]),... | |
 | Ronald Shusterman - 2000 - 388 pàgines
...all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when l saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) l would put my finger on it and say. When I grow up I will go there. 5 Ce court extrait appelle au... | |
 | Rebecca Solnit - 2001 - 252 pàgines
...Freezeout Lake, Montana, gelatin silver print. 8" x 10", 199S; © Barbara Bosworth, 199S. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that locked particularly inviting on a map (hut they all look that) I would put im finger on it and Mir,... | |
 | J. B. Harley - 2002 - 356 pàgines
...In Joseph Conrad's Victorian novel The Heart of Darkness, the character Marlowe says, "At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when...my finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there."60 The passage is often quoted as an example of how maps stir the geographical imagination.... | |
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