Author: Robert HuishPublisher: London : J. Saunders
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R.N. to the Arctic Regions
Author: Robert HuishPublisher: London : J. Saunders
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross, R. N. to the Arctic Regions; for the Discovery of a North West Passage; Performed in the Years 1829-30-31-32 and 33; to which is Prefixed an Abridgement of the Former Voyages of Captns. Ross, Parry & Other Celebrated Navigators to the Northern Latitudes Compiled from Authentic Information and Original Documents, Transmitted by William Light, Purser's Steward to the Expedition; Illustrated by Engravings from Drawings Taken on the Spot
Author: Robert HuishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest Passage
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
The London Quarterly Review
Author: The Quarterly Review (London)
Author: The Quarterly review
Author: The Quarterly Review
Author: William GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Quarterly Review
Author: Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's Narrative of a Second Voyage in the Victory in Search of a North-west Passage
Author: John BraithwaitePublisher: London : Chapman and Hall
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The Waterless Sea
Author: Christopher PinneyPublisher: 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.