Evacuation/ Ernest Hemingway
The carts were jammed for thirty miles along the Karagath Road. Water buffalo and cattle were hauling the carts through the mud. No end and no beginning. Just carts loaded with everything they owned. The old men and women, soaked through, walked along keeping the cattle moving. The Maritza was running yellow up to the […]
Green / Joseph Conrad
Many tried to follow him and find that land of plenty for gutta-percha and rattans, pearl shells and birds’ nests, wax and gum-dammar, but the little Flash could outsail every craft in those seas. A few of them came to grief on hidden sandbanks and coral reefs, losing their all and barely escaping with […]
