The New Frontiers of Freedom From the Alps to the Aegean
The book The New Frontiers of Freedom From the Alps to the Aegean was written by author Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander), 1879- Here you can read free online of The New Frontiers of Freedom From the Alps to the Aegean book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The New Frontiers of Freedom From the Alps to the Aegean a good or bad book?
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She hadno idea that he was coming, he said, as he had planned to surprise her. Perhaps he was the one to be surprised. Sixteen years is a long time fora woman to wait for a man, even in a country as conservative as Turkey. The officers of the _Padova_ talked a good deal about the mine-fieldsthat still guarded the approaches to the Dardanelles and the possibilitythat some of the deadly contrivances might have broken loose and driftedacross our course. In order to cheer us up the captain showed u...s thecharts, on which the mined areas were indicated by diagonal shadings, little red arrows pointing the way between them along channels asnarrow and devious as a forest trail. To add to our sense of security hetold us that he had never been through the Dardanelles before, addingthat he did not intend to pick up a pilot, as he considered theircharges exorbitant. At the base of the great mine-field which liesacross the mouth of the Straits we were hailed by a British patrol boat, whose choleric commander bellowed instructions at us, interlarded withmuch profanity, through a megaphone.
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