2010, ISBN: 9782819943327

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), pubOne.info present you this new edition. Just where the track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it… Más…

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), pubOne.info present you this new edition. Just where the track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit, hedged by dwarf firs. At every bend of the heat-laden road the eye rested upon it wistfully; all along the flank of the mountain, which seemed to pant and quiver in the oven-like air, through rising dust, the slow creaking of dragging wheels, the monotonous cry of tired springs, and the muffled beat of plunging hoofs, it held out a promise of sheltered coolness and green silences beyond. Sunburned and anxious faces yearned toward it from the dizzy, swaying tops of stagecoaches, from lagging teams far below, from the blinding white canvas covers of &quote;mountain schooners, &quote; and from scorching saddles that seemed to weigh down the scrambling, sweating animals beneath. But it would seem that the hope was vain, the promise illusive. When the terrace was reached it appeared not only to have caught and gathered all the heat of the valley below, but to have evolved a fire of its own from some hidden crater-like source unknown, [PU: Pub One Info], Seiten: 71, Pub One Info, 2010<

ISBN: 9782819943327

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ISBN: 9782819943327

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2010, ISBN: 9782819943327

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ISBN: 9782819943327

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