Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 445 | Only a View more quotes about foot">foot or two below the surface, these temperatures are reduced by more than fifty degrees. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 442 | A shelter trench is a narrow trench, some four or five feet deep and about eighteen inches wide. |
| 1 | 443 | The sand, struck by the sun, can reach temperatures on its surface of more than 175 degrees Fahrenheit. |
| 1 | 444 | Set on rocks, boards of metal some two feet in length, and six inches wide, exposed to the sun, are sometimes used by the nomad women in frying foods. |
| 1 | 445 | Only a foot or two below the surface, these temperatures are reduced by more than fifty degrees. |
| 1 | 446 | The trench provides, most importantly, shade from the sun. |
| 1 | 447 | The air temperature is seldom more than 140 degrees in the shade, even in the dune country. |
| 1 | 448 | The trench, of course, is always dug with its long axis perpendicular to the path of the sun, that it provide the maximum shade for the longest period of time. |
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A shelter trench is a narrow trench, some four or five feet deep and about eighteen inches wide.
The sand, struck by the sun, can reach temperatures on its surface of more than 175 degrees Fahrenheit.
Set on rocks, boards of metal some two feet in length, and six inches wide, exposed to the sun, are sometimes used by the nomad women in frying foods.
Only a foot or two below the surface, these temperatures are reduced by more than fifty degrees.
The trench provides, most importantly, shade from the sun.
The air temperature is seldom more than 140 degrees in the shade, even in the dune country.
The trench, of course, is always dug with its long axis perpendicular to the path of the sun, that it provide the maximum shade for the longest period of time.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)