Word: soilless
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...drama of men against the sea. The small Aran Islands off the Irish coast seem ever to be lost beneath the pounding waves. Yet on this rocky, soilless shore the Man of Aran grows potatoes, with the aid of seaweed. Fish also may be found in the sea as well as the oil of the shark, used to light his crude lamp. But the sea does not always yield its bounties without a struggle, sometimes so fierce that the Man is glad to return alive, without fish without even his boat which is dashed to pieces...
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