Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unless you are planning a summer trip to their region in Holland, there's not much use in going into the subject so deeply. It is conceivable that Mr. Pasma may write sea-fiction in the future which will be of more sustained interest than this record of his Wander-jahre...
...times one feels that the author has forgotten his theme, as when he lets his characters wander to Florida in the midst of the land boom. The devotion of page after page to the character development of persons not immediately concerened in the story tends to destroy the proportion of the novel and proves to be its major fault...
Troyka. When news of the Revolution reaches the bleak prison island of Sakhalin, the Russian commandant shoots himself in the head and the Siberian exiles are free to try to recapture their former lives, to wander back to wives and children. This situation is complicated for Semion and Ivan, fast friends, because they both love a beautiful Siberian, Natascha. Semion has mated with her for eight years; for five of those years Ivan, living in the same cabin, has manfully choked his desire. But when freedom comes, no such suppression is possible. Ivan confesses his passion to Semion, and they...
Levon West, born in South Dakota 30 years ago, is a descendant of Benjamin West, Colonial and British painter. He likes to wander amid the lonely buttes and lakes of the Northwest, hunting and sketching, when he is not doing Houdini tricks with cards or taking rabbits out of the pockets of his friends. He watched the aviators on Long Island preparing for the flight to Paris in the spring of 1927. He came to know Charles Augustus Lind bergh, and etched his portrait directly on copper plate from memory, aided by a photograph, the day Lindbergh landed in Paris...
Kerr Eby prefers to wander amid wild marshes, fish in the surf. He was born in Tokyo of U. S. parents. He lives in Manhattan and Westport, Conn...