Author: Christopher Pinney
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780239696
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Mirages have long astonished travelers of the sea and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry and art depict the above-horizon, superior mirage, or fata morgana, as exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources relate mirages to the “thirst of gazelles,” a metaphor for the futility of desire. Starting in the late eighteenth century, mirages became a symbol in the West of Oriental despotism—a negative, but also enchanted, emblem. But the mirage motif is rarely simply condemnatory. More often, our obsession with mirages conveys a sense of escape, of fascination, of a desire to be deceived. The Waterless Sea is the first book devoted to the theories and history of mirages. Christopher Pinney navigates a sinuous pathway through a mysterious and evanescent terrain, showing how mirages have impacted politics, culture, science, and religion—and how we can continue to learn from their sublimity.
The Waterless Sea
Author: Christopher Pinney
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780239696
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Mirages have long astonished travelers of the sea and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry and art depict the above-horizon, superior mirage, or fata morgana, as exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources relate mirages to the “thirst of gazelles,” a metaphor for the futility of desire. Starting in the late eighteenth century, mirages became a symbol in the West of Oriental despotism—a negative, but also enchanted, emblem. But the mirage motif is rarely simply condemnatory. More often, our obsession with mirages conveys a sense of escape, of fascination, of a desire to be deceived. The Waterless Sea is the first book devoted to the theories and history of mirages. Christopher Pinney navigates a sinuous pathway through a mysterious and evanescent terrain, showing how mirages have impacted politics, culture, science, and religion—and how we can continue to learn from their sublimity.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780239696
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Mirages have long astonished travelers of the sea and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry and art depict the above-horizon, superior mirage, or fata morgana, as exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources relate mirages to the “thirst of gazelles,” a metaphor for the futility of desire. Starting in the late eighteenth century, mirages became a symbol in the West of Oriental despotism—a negative, but also enchanted, emblem. But the mirage motif is rarely simply condemnatory. More often, our obsession with mirages conveys a sense of escape, of fascination, of a desire to be deceived. The Waterless Sea is the first book devoted to the theories and history of mirages. Christopher Pinney navigates a sinuous pathway through a mysterious and evanescent terrain, showing how mirages have impacted politics, culture, science, and religion—and how we can continue to learn from their sublimity.
The Waterless Sea
Author: Kate Constable
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780439554817
Category : Fantasy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reprinted with the same ISBN, but with slightly varying bibliographical details.
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780439554817
Category : Fantasy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reprinted with the same ISBN, but with slightly varying bibliographical details.
The Waterless Sea
Author: Kate Constable
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781435288096
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Calwyn and her friends travel to the desert land of Merithuros to rescue the children held captive because of their magical gift of chantment, even as their friend Darrow begins a plot of his own.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781435288096
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Calwyn and her friends travel to the desert land of Merithuros to rescue the children held captive because of their magical gift of chantment, even as their friend Darrow begins a plot of his own.
The Renaissance
Author: James Basil Oldham
Publisher:
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Category : Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
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Category : Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Travels in Africa During the Years 1875-1878
Author: Wilhelm Junker
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Charles George Gordon
Author: Butler
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Author:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research
Author: American Schools of Oriental Research
Publisher:
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Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Palestine
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research
Author: Benjamin Wisner Bacon
Publisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Mediterranean Cruise
Author: Rolland Jenkins
Publisher:
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Category : Mediterranean Sea
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Mediterranean Sea
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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