Into the Unknown
by Lawrence Fletcher
Publisher: Project Gutenberg 2010
ISBN/ASIN: 1151055387
Description:
The scene is magnificently striking, but grand with a loneliness awful beyond description, for, so far as the eye can reach, the fervid sun beats upon nothing but towering mountain-peaks, whose grey and rugged summits pierce the fleecy heat-clouds, and seem to lose themselves in a hopeless attempt to fathom the unspeakable majesty beyond.
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