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A Box Of Sand Quotes
A Box Of Sand: The Italo-Ottoman War 1911-1912
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Charles Stephenson49 ratings, 3.88 average rating, 8 reviews
A Box Of Sand Quotes
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“The Jaws of the Sahara’ (Le fauci del Sahara)
But around me is a silence of death: a word seems to spring from the horizon: – Back! – Back to all of you who want to violate my secret, you who were not born in my restless dunes, you were not burned by my fire, taught not to wait, against the earth, the passage of my rage … Back! – And these words of challenge rose as knights armed with a deadly struggle, only a few men, naked, implacable as the expanse of sand and the scorching sun … and launched by the jaws of the great desert […]
Domenico Tumiati, ‘Le fauci del Saara’ in Tripolitania, 1911”
― A Box Of Sand: The Italo-Ottoman War 1911-1912
But around me is a silence of death: a word seems to spring from the horizon: – Back! – Back to all of you who want to violate my secret, you who were not born in my restless dunes, you were not burned by my fire, taught not to wait, against the earth, the passage of my rage … Back! – And these words of challenge rose as knights armed with a deadly struggle, only a few men, naked, implacable as the expanse of sand and the scorching sun … and launched by the jaws of the great desert […]
Domenico Tumiati, ‘Le fauci del Saara’ in Tripolitania, 1911”
― A Box Of Sand: The Italo-Ottoman War 1911-1912
