The Waterless Sea

Author : Christopher Pinney
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780239696
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Waterless Sea written by Christopher Pinney and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kate Constable
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781741145335
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Waterless Sea written by Kate Constable and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted with the same ISBN, but with slightly varying bibliographical details.

Author : Kate Constable
Publisher : Arthur a Levine
ISBN 13 : 9780439554800
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Waterless Sea written by Kate Constable and published by Arthur a Levine. This book was released on 2005 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kate Constable
Publisher : Topeka Bindery
ISBN 13 : 9781417819775
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waterless Sea -Lib written by Kate Constable and published by Topeka Bindery. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second novel in the captivating Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy follows Calwyn and her friends to the desolate Merithuran Empire. As they search for a group of kidnapped children who have the gift of enchantment, they must negotiate the unforgiving desert and the even more treacherous Palace of Cobwebs, where they uncover the dreadful secret that holds the Empire together. Meanwhile, Darrow has broken away from the group to form a new alliance of his own. Can he still be trusted? In this book, Calwyn's quest for peace and justice has greater consequences than she ever could have imagined.

Author : Laura Adams Armer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486492885
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waterless Mountain written by Laura Adams Armer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story, told in beautiful poetic prose, of the training of a present-day Navajo Indian boy who feels a vocation to become a medicine man.

Author : Kate Constable
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781741145328
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Singer of All Songs written by Kate Constable and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calwyn has never been beyond the high ice-wall that guards the sisters of Antaris from the world of Tremaris. She knows only the rounds of her life as a novice ice priestess, tending her bees, singing her ice chantments, and dreaming. But then Calwyn befriends Darrow, a mysterious Outlander who appears inside the Wall and warns of an approaching danger. To help Darrow, to see the world, and perhaps to save it, Calwyn will leave the safety of the Wall for a journey with a man she barely knows--and an adventure as beautiful and dangerous as the music of chantment itself.

Author : Kate Constable
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741156546
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Waterless Sea written by Kate Constable and published by . This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 of the compelling Chanters of Tremaris fantasy series follows Calwyn and her friends to the desolate desert lands of Merithuros in search of a group of kidnapped children who have the gift of chantment.

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ISBN 13 : 9781741155228
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waterless Sea written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second book in the captivating Chanters of Tremaris fantasy series follows Calwyn and her friends to the desolate desert lands of Merithos in search of a group of kidnapped children who have the gift of chantment.

Author : Kate Constable
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 174115653X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenth Power written by Kate Constable and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third and final book of the Chanters of Tremaris series, a dramatic fantasy saga of adventure and magic, for readers 12+.

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Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513262351
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catastrophe by the Sea written by and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From revered nature writer Brenda Peterson and told through striking and vibrant mixed-media collages by Caldecott Medalist Ed Young, Catastrophe by the Sea is a poignant story of redemption through empathy and compassion found in the most surprising places, and also provides a rich understanding of small creatures that live in a dangerous tidal zone. A lost cat roams the tide pools, pawing relentlessly at the small creatures that live there. One day an anemone confronts him and asks why he is alone and befriends him. In partnership with the Seattle Aquarium, Catastrophe by the Sea delivers a powerful message of finding understanding and friendship, and at the same time educates on the varied wildlife brimming in tide pools.