Word: gama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long Island that has belonged to the Fannings since the reign of King Charles II?the memory of a shipwreck that occurred more than ten years before the story begins?a rash debt undischarged?the narration of the tragic love story of another Cynthia Fanning and young Pedro da Gama that was acted two centuries previous in Tangier: out of these materials Grant Overton has written "a tale of the miracle we call love and of the commonplace we call fate." A most unusually good romance, it nevertheless has its defects: a stiff burden of complications, a style that...
Lieutenants Kelly and Macready, who made the first non-stop airplane flight across the United States, are enrolled in that "Legion", although their membership is nowhere to be soon on a roster. They are proving their right to the places their spirit had chosen for them alongside Vasco de Gama, Stanley, Perry and all pioneers...