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Bagnold and wrote
His sister was the novelist and playwright Enid Bagnold, who wrote the 1935 novel National Velvet.
Bagnold wrote, " Never in our peacetime travels had we imagined that war could ever reach the enormous empty solitudes of the inner desert, walled off by sheer distance, lack of water, and impassable seas of sand dunes.
They were gardens into which you walked through a frame ," wrote Enid Bagnold.
" He had three tombs in his heart ," Enid Bagnold wrote in her Times obituary, " which I think he could never finally close-of his mother, his brother Emmanuel and his wife.
After graduating he worked for a brief period for Frank Harris, who edited the publication Hearth and Home in 1911 / 2, alongside Enid Bagnold ; Kingsmill later wrote a debunking biography of Harris, after the spell had worn off.

Bagnold and travels
* Libyan Sands, Travel in a Dead World about the travels of R. A. Bagnold by Ralph Alger Bagnold
One of its earliest pioneers was the famous Bagnold of the Long Range Desert Group working during World War II who has recorded some of his earliest trials of desert crossing by vehicles in his book Libyan Sands: travels in a dead world ( 1935 ).

Bagnold and book
The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes ( 1941 ) is a science book, written by Ralph A. Bagnold.
During his expeditions into the Libyan Desert, Bagnold had been fascinated by the shapes of the sand dunes, and after returning to England he built a wind tunnel and conducted the experiments which are the basis of the book.
The soldier / physicist Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold was an early pioneer of the physics of granular matter and whose book " The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes " remains an important reference to this day.

Bagnold and Libyan
In addition, Bagnold is credited with discovering a method of driving over the large sand dunes found in the " sand seas " of the Libyan Desert.

Bagnold and 1935
* Bagnold, R. A. 1935.
* Bagnold, R. A. 1935.
# Bagnold, R. A. 1935.
# Bagnold, R. A. 1935.
National Velvet is a novel by Enid Bagnold ( 1889 – 1981 ), first published in 1935.
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE ( 27 October 1889 – 31 March 1981 ), known by her maiden name as Enid Bagnold, was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet which was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor.

Bagnold and ).
( Years later, in 1923, Sir Roderick Jones, head of Reuters, and his wife, playwright and novelist Enid Bagnold, were to add the adjacent Gothic House to the property and which became the inspiration and setting for her play The Chalk Garden ).
* Biography of Ralph Bagnold ( 1896-1990 ).
At this time he was in a relationship with the writer Enid Bagnold, but his affections for her were replaced by those he began to feel for the twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth Asquith ( he was 40 at the time ).
Known Ministers for Magic include Millicent Bagnold ( before the books begin ), Cornelius Fudge, Rufus Scrimgeour, Pius Thicknesse ( under the Imperius Curse controlled indirectly by Lord Voldemort ) and Kingsley Shacklebolt ( temporarily, but later known to be permanent ).

wrote and travels
These were partly the result of the tireless travels he had begun in 1839 in search of unread manuscripts of the New Testament, " to clear up in this way ," he wrote, " the history of the sacred text, and to recover if possible the genuine apostolic text which is the foundation of our faith.
Severian, Bishop of Gabala ( d. 408 ), wrote that the Earth is flat and the sun does not pass under it in the night, but " travels through the northern parts as if hidden by a wall ".
Following each trip, Palin wrote a book about his travels, providing information and insights not included in the TV programme.
In 1835, the English poet William Wordsworth described the Lake District as a The painter George Catlin, in his travels through the American West, wrote during the 1830s that the Native Americans in the United States might be preserved
The Australian author Geraldine Brooks wrote a memoir entitled Foreign Correspondence ( 1997 ) about her childhood, which was enriched by her exchanges of letters with other children in Australia and overseas and her travels as an adult in search of the people they had become.
' Later on that year during his travels to Holland with General Goring, he wrote ' The Rose ,' following with ' The Scrutiny ' and on 14 May 1649, ' Lucasta ' was published.
He also wrote that the asymmetric aging is completely accounted for by the fact that the astronaut twin travels in two separate frames, while the Earth twin remains in one frame, and the time of acceleration can be made arbitrarily small compared with the time of inertial motion.
For example, Ulrich Jasper Seetzen noted during his travels in Ottoman Syria in 1808-09 that 150 persons were employed in the glass industry in Hebron, while later, in 1844, Robert Sears wrote that Hebron's population of 400 Arab families " manufactured glass lamps, which are exported to Egypt.
Japanese monks also visited China ; such was the case with Ennin ( 794 – 864 ), who wrote of his travel experiences including travels along China's Grand Canal.
On his return, he wrote a book about his experiences: How I Found Livingstone ; travels, adventures, and discoveries in Central Africa.
George Bird Grinnell ( 1849 – 1938 ) was a non-Indian author and ethnologist, who wrote accounts of the Blackfoot Nation during his travels and research as a conservationist.
He also visited nearby countries and later wrote about the impressions some of those travels left on him:
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in an account of his travels through the Pacific in 1888 and 1889, “ the natives themselves have often scraped up a little English ,... or an efficient pidgin, what is called to the westward ' Beach-la-Mar '.”'.
* Egeria ( pilgrim ), also called Aetheria, a fourth century Christian woman who made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and wrote a letter about her travels
George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge wrote a trilogy of novels My First Two Thousand Years, an Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, ( 1928 ), in which Isaac Laquedem is a Roman soldier who, after being told by Jesus that he will " tarry until I return ," goes on to influence many of the great events of history ; he frequently encounters Solome ( described as ' The Wandering Jewess '), and travels with a companion, to whom he has passed on his immortality via a blood transfusion ( another attempt to do this for a woman he loved ended in her death ).
She also visited Switzerland, Italy, Palestine, and Greece between 1856 and 1861, and wrote popular accounts of her travels.
The next time a name is given in the sources is three decades later, in 1530, when the ( Slovene ) monk Benedikt Kuripešić ( Curipeschitz ) wrote memoirs of his travels through the Balkan Peninsula.
In 1818 Moore wrote The Fudge Family in Paris, a story in which a British family travels to experience the sights of Paris ; a sequel, The Fudge Family in England, followed in 1835.
Guibert was a member of the Académie française from 1786, and he also wrote a tragedy, Le Connétable de Bourbon ( 1775 ) and a journal of travels in France and Switzerland.
Stephens wrote several popular books about his travels and explorations.
Afterward, he wrote and published a five-volume account of his travels in both English and German.
Barth wrote and published accounts of his travels simultaneously in English and German, under the title Reisen und Entdeckungen in Nord-und Zentralafrika ( Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa ; 1857 – 1858, 5 vols., approx.
David-Néel wrote over 30 books about Eastern religion, philosophy, and her travels.
During these travels, he taught and wrote, advocating continually for Cuba's independence.
A staunch opponent of communism after experiencing it first hand in the Soviet Union during her Red Cross travels, Lane wrote the seminal The Discovery of Freedom ( 1943 ), and tirelessly promoted and wrote about individual freedom, and its impact on humanity.

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