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On the Beach describes search for survivors after entire population on North America has been wiped out by nuclear war. [Br. Lit.: Weiss, 332] See : Destruction |
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| But as there were forty or fifty thousand other seals hunting for the same thing each spring, the whistling, bellowing, roaring, and blowing on the beach was something frightful. The two squatted on the beach at the edge of the jungle a short distance above the point at which Sing had been about to emerge when he discovered them, so that it was but the work of a moment or two for the Chinaman to creep stealthily through the dense underbrush to a point directly above them and not three yards from where they conversed in low tones--yet sufficiently loud that Sing missed not a word. And on the night of her belated arrival Captain Kellar forgot Michael on the beach. |
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