The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Band 10Viking Press, 1930 - 299 Seiten Autobiography of a British cavalry officer in pre-war India and on the Western front, who later became a member of the Royal flying corps in Mesopotamia. The closing chapters concern his subsequent travels in India and give his interpretation of the Hindu philosophy through the medium of his own personal experience. |
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... train was puffing over the red girder railway - bridge that my race has built in this city of abstrac- tions . Was all this talk of the Brahmins - the doubt rose in my mind like the tortoise I had seen in the Jumna 139 Benares.
... train was puffing over the red girder railway - bridge that my race has built in this city of abstrac- tions . Was all this talk of the Brahmins - the doubt rose in my mind like the tortoise I had seen in the Jumna 139 Benares.
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... train to Richa Road , for a last pig - sticking meet at Ratmugri . But now I put my files away . One must be a patient listener if one would be an Adjutant of Bengal Lancers . A pay - sowar , the Woordie Major told me , had an- nounced ...
... train to Richa Road , for a last pig - sticking meet at Ratmugri . But now I put my files away . One must be a patient listener if one would be an Adjutant of Bengal Lancers . A pay - sowar , the Woordie Major told me , had an- nounced ...
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... train was set . The life - breath of conti- nents is longer than that of men , perhaps none of us alive would see the end of this unrest . But my path would be far from the blazes and explosions . ... ... I shut my eyes , for they were ...
... train was set . The life - breath of conti- nents is longer than that of men , perhaps none of us alive would see the end of this unrest . But my path would be far from the blazes and explosions . ... ... I shut my eyes , for they were ...
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New Years Eve 1905 | 3 |
Durbar and a Dog Fight | 14 |
Masheen of the Mirrored Thumbs | 31 |
Urheberrecht | |
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