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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... young master , being human in his early years , and worth the trouble of breaking into Indian ways . So it had come that I engaged Jagwant , a magnificent and faithful person , with elegant whiskers and an heredi- tary instinct for ...
... young master , being human in his early years , and worth the trouble of breaking into Indian ways . So it had come that I engaged Jagwant , a magnificent and faithful person , with elegant whiskers and an heredi- tary instinct for ...
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... young , birds and beasts , all mingling on the bank and washing in the sacrosanct waters of the Mother -that is the river - front at Benares . The Ganges is so pure that you may drink beside her sewers , or amongst her corpses . She ...
... young , birds and beasts , all mingling on the bank and washing in the sacrosanct waters of the Mother -that is the river - front at Benares . The Ganges is so pure that you may drink beside her sewers , or amongst her corpses . She ...
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... young horses . Sir Mark Sykes , who was a passenger on board , had been explaining the War to me . Turkey would be dismembered , he said . The Arabs were to have a kingdom ; the Russians , Constantinople . If we won at Suvla Bay , where ...
... young horses . Sir Mark Sykes , who was a passenger on board , had been explaining the War to me . Turkey would be dismembered , he said . The Arabs were to have a kingdom ; the Russians , Constantinople . If we won at Suvla Bay , where ...
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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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