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The aviator writes he will be going up again to the air-jungle to bring back proof of his discoveries, but here the fragment ends, save for one last sentence which reads:
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The story has appeared in a number of collections, the earliest being
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There are jungles of the upper air One of them lies over the
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18:Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
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966:Short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
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719:A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus
489:The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
695:The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
537:The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
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505:The Hound of the Baskervilles
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607:The Narrative of John Smith
382:public domain audiobook at
363:Tales of Terror and Mystery
349:"The Horror of the Heights"
343:"The Horror of the Heights"
339:'s Index to Science Fiction
333:"The Horror of the Heights"
211:The story formed a part of
200:The Road to Science Fiction
24:"The Horror of the Heights"
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711:The Tragedy of the Korosko
589:The Disintegration Machine
150:Joyce-Armstrong takes his
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811:Danger! and Other Stories
804:The Horror of the Heights
647:The Doings of Raffles Haw
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266:The Horror of the Heights
195:Danger! and Other Stories
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863:FairyTale: A True Story
776:The Case of Lady Sannox
687:The Stark Munro Letters
631:The Firm of Girdlestone
615:The Mystery of Cloomber
582:When the World Screamed
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837:The Crime of the Congo
783:The Club-Footed Grocer
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549:Professor Challenger
481:The Sign of the Four
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879:Arthur & George
956:1913 short stories
905:Adrian Conan Doyle
521:The Valley of Fear
473:A Study in Scarlet
441:Arthur Conan Doyle
299:. Studium magazine
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34:Arthur Conan Doyle
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844:The Vital Message
639:The White Company
399:Forgotten Futures
368:Project Gutenberg
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207:Adaptations
189:Collections
58:Publication
30:Short story
950:Categories
923:John Doyle
913:(daughter)
855:Depictions
316:References
303:30 January
164:gelatinous
160:atmosphere
156:ecosystems
934:Undershaw
735:Sir Nigel
152:monoplane
146:district.
144:Wiesbaden
136:Wiltshire
103:in 1913.
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113:Withyham
107:Synopsis
48:Genre(s)
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120:aviator
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