The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages
| Autor: | Pinney, Christopher |
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| EAN: | 9781780239323 |
| Sachgruppe: | Biologie |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 184 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 15.07.2018 |
| Schlagworte: | Nature |
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"Mirages have long astonished travelers of the sea and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Chinese and Japanese poetry and images depicted mirages as the exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources related them to the 'thirst of gazelles,' a metaphor for the futility of desire. From the late eighteenth century to the present, mirages became a symbol of 'Oriental despotis,' a malign, but also enchanted, emblem. But the mirage motif is rarely simply condemnatory. More commonly it 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"--Dust jacke
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