. Italy in North Africa : an account of the Tripoli enterprise . n undulating steppe of authentic soil—notsand, save for the intersecting belts of dunes—clothed with astrange beauty of colour and air and light. When the yearturned, the bare curves put on a light garment of greenery,of weeds and wild-flowers, yellow and blue and purple. The desert fascinated, but the mountains called insis-tently, Jebel Tarhuna and Jebel Gharian, hard and blueagainst the southern horizon. The mountains called, andall Tripoli went into calculations as to the date when thecall would be answered. Every one was con
. Italy in North Africa : an account of the Tripoli enterprise . n undulating steppe of authentic soil—notsand, save for the intersecting belts of dunes—clothed with astrange beauty of colour and air and light. When the yearturned, the bare curves put on a light garment of greenery,of weeds and wild-flowers, yellow and blue and purple. The desert fascinated, but the mountains called insis-tently, Jebel Tarhuna and Jebel Gharian, hard and blueagainst the southern horizon. The mountains called, andall Tripoli went into calculations as to the date when thecall would be answered. Every one was confident of thenext move, but it was fully realised that preparations foran advance would take time (though some asked why pre-parations had not already been made). It was felt thatthe occupation of Ain Zara had definitely closed one phaseof the war, and that though it seemed to mark the firststep in another phase, the second step could not be takenfor several weeks, at the earliest. The end of Januarywas, perhaps, the popular fancy for the date on which the. TURKISH GUNS CAPTURED AT AIN ZARA
Size: 1819px × 1373px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookpublisherlondo, bookyear1913
