The Waterless Sea

Author : Christopher Pinney
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780239699

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The Waterless Sea by Christopher Pinney Pdf

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 : Arthur a Levine
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439554802

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The Waterless Sea by Kate Constable Pdf

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
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1417819774

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Waterless Sea -Lib by Kate Constable Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1741155223

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Waterless Sea by Anonim Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1741156548

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The Waterless Sea by Kate Constable Pdf

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.

Author : Laura Adams Armer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486492889

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Waterless Mountain by Laura Adams Armer Pdf

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
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1741145325

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The Singer of All Songs by Kate Constable Pdf

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 : Allen & Unwin
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781741156539

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The Tenth Power by Kate Constable Pdf

This is the third and final book of the Chanters of Tremaris series, a dramatic fantasy saga of adventure and magic, for readers 12+.

Author : Arthur Bowie Chrisman
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781479460205

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Shen of the Sea by Arthur Bowie Chrisman Pdf

Shen of the Sea is a collection of short stories written by Arthur Bowie Chrisman and illustrated by Else Hasselriis.Chrisman won the 1926 Newbery Medal, recognizing the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."

Author : Kate Constable
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781741766271

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Cicada Summer by Kate Constable Pdf

Eloise doesn't speak, but can she see into the past? This exciting and atmospheric mystery from the author of the Chanters of Tremaris series explores themes of family, friendship, and grief. Something flickered at the top of the stairs. Eloise heard a voice call,I'm coming!, and a girl in a pale dress and a big sunhat came running, her fingertips slipping down the curve of the slim iron railing. Eloise went cold all over. She couldn't move, or breathe; her mouth was dry. At the bottom of the steps, the girl in the pale dress faltered, then stopped. For a fraction of a second she stood motionless, as if she were listening. Then all at once she turned and stared straight at Eloise. And suddenly the foyer was empty. The ghostly girl was gone. When Eloise's get-rich-quick dad moves them back to his home town to turn the derelict family mansion into a convention center, Eloise feels an immediate bond with the old house. She begins spending all her time there, ignoring her strange grandmother and avoiding the friendly boy next door. Then Eloise meets a "ghost girl" who may or may not be from the house's past, and events take a strange—and ultimately dangerous—turn. Beautifully written, poignant, and gripping, this is a charming and atmospheric story of personal growth, overcoming grief, and the true nature of friendship and family.

Author : Natalie Lunis
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781597165082

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Prickly Sea Stars by Natalie Lunis Pdf

Text and photographs present amazing facts about sea stars.

Author : Mark Blum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UCSD:31822025531948

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Beneath the Sea in 3-D by Mark Blum Pdf

Pairs of photographs of a variety of marine animals and plants that appear three-dimensional when seen through a built-in viewer.

Author : Wilhelm Junker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070424309

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Travels in Africa During the Years 1875[-1886] by Wilhelm Junker Pdf

Author : Anton Ginzburg
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 3775738312

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Anton Ginzburg by Anton Ginzburg Pdf

"In Walking the Sea, Anton Ginzburg (* 1974 in St. Petersburg) charts a twenty-six-thousand-square-mile area between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan known as the Aral Sea, an environmental ruin of the Soviet era. Drawing on the tradition of American Land Art from the late sixties and early seventies, Ginzburg approaches the waterless sea as a ready-made earthwork in order to make visible a territory, history, and a potential imaginary space that remain largely inaccessible. The resulting film, photographs, and sculptures refer to regional histories and cultural myths, ranging from the figure of the plein-air painter as a traveling dervish to the idea of the landscape as shaped like an Aeolian harp, and the belief in a subterranean "inner sea" into which the Aral Sea has disappeared. The book pays homage to a rich history of artists who have approached the world from the perspective of a wanderer and who have mapped and reshaped both landscapes and urban environments through the act of walking." -- Provided by publisher

Author : Lea Taddonio
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781532132803

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Book 3: I'm Squatching You by Lea Taddonio Pdf

Cooper and Cruz Garcia are in the mountains at Camp Nowhere. They are following big footprints in search of their missing bunkmate. They hear more blood-curdling screams. It's cold and getting dark. But it's when they feel they are being watched that things get really interesting! Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spellbound is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.