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Growth of the Soil, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
Growth of the Soil Vol 1 of 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Knut Hamsun Chapter I THE long, long ro ad over the nloors and up into the forest - who trod it into being first of all? Man, a human being, the first that came here. There was no path before he came. Afterward, some beast or other, following the faint tracks over rna rsh and moorland, wearing th em deeper; after these again some Lapp gained scent of the pa... more »th, and took that way from field to field, looking to bis reindeer. Thus was nlade the road through the great Almenning - the common tracts without an owner; no-man's-land. The man comes, walking toward the north. He bears a sack, the first sack, carrying food and some few implements. A strong, coarse fellow, with a red iron beard, and little scars on face and hands; sites of old wounds - were they gained in toil or fight? IVlaybe the man has been in prison, and is looking for a place to hide; or a philosopher, maybe, in search of peace. This or that, he comes; the figure of a man in this great solitude. He trudges on; bird
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