Hand in hand, we picked our way through the boats and out onto the windswept concrete esplanade.

The cosmodrome, heart and soul of the Territory, is nothing more now than a concrete esplanade on which the southwestern winds pile drifts of sand.

Quietly, he descends the sandy slope to the first concrete esplanades that mark the cosmodrome's entry.

There's a handful of haves and a whole nation of have-nots.' She stared out of the window at the wide concrete esplanades.