Love and Fantasy in the Cuckoo IslandsWesma Publishers, 2003 - 167 pagini A story of romance and adventure in the South Pacific, involving a castaway who treks across several islands and meets a number of colorful characters, including a spy, an intelligence officer and refugees, as well as charming girls and women. The hero settles down in his new country and joins a club, whose members discuss the world situation at the end of the second millenium |
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... boat with room for twenty - five or thirty passengers , only half - filled with tourists . The captain , who served also as the helmsman , was eager to take whomever he could find , a family with small kids , and a motley group of ...
... boat with room for twenty - five or thirty passengers , only half - filled with tourists . The captain , who served also as the helmsman , was eager to take whomever he could find , a family with small kids , and a motley group of ...
Pagina 12
... boat . But after an hour or so of sailing the clouds were definitely heavier and darker and the wind started to stir up waves which rocked the boat and made it jump with the blades of the screw roaring as they rose above the water ...
... boat . But after an hour or so of sailing the clouds were definitely heavier and darker and the wind started to stir up waves which rocked the boat and made it jump with the blades of the screw roaring as they rose above the water ...
Pagina 13
... boat just disappeared , there was no boat , only people in lifesavers and even those vanishing as the wind and the waves blew them in all directions . There was no one who could be saved , in a short while there was none to be seen . No ...
... boat just disappeared , there was no boat , only people in lifesavers and even those vanishing as the wind and the waves blew them in all directions . There was no one who could be saved , in a short while there was none to be seen . No ...
Pagina 20
... boat perished , overcome by the sudden storm . Yet we still kept up hopes that some day another excursion would visit the island and we would be taken back to civilization . We started to think in terms of a longer stay . How big was ...
... boat perished , overcome by the sudden storm . Yet we still kept up hopes that some day another excursion would visit the island and we would be taken back to civilization . We started to think in terms of a longer stay . How big was ...
Pagina 30
... boat might appear and I want to be here when that happens . " And lo and behold , she gave me a kiss as I was leaving . I took with me a basket which we had constructed out of small bamboo twigs and put into it a fair amount of dried ...
... boat might appear and I want to be here when that happens . " And lo and behold , she gave me a kiss as I was leaving . I took with me a basket which we had constructed out of small bamboo twigs and put into it a fair amount of dried ...
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Pagina viii - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Pagina viii - O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear, From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off, and near. Though babbling only to the Vale, Of sunshine and of flowers, Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours. Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird...
Pagina 145 - But there is another factor which should be taken into account," the Yid joined the discussion, "namely, the desire of the public to be entertained at whatever cost.