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Nocturne : a journey in search of moonlight
Title:
Nocturne : a journey in search of moonlight
Author:
Attlee, James.
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Publication Information:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2011]

©2011
Physical Description:
viii, 309 pages ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Syzigy. A three-dog night by the river ; A barefoot Galileo ; Absorbed by its shadows ; Earthshine ; Eostre and a paschal moon ; A white horse and mammoth bones ; Fear of the dark ; Darkness and the desert: an Islamic moon ; Mussolini, the Madonna and moonlight ; Extollagers in the valley of vision: memory, moonlight and Samuel Palmer ; Dark adaption and the eye of the beholder ; The path of totality ; Adrift on the Lapetus ocean ; August beach moon, Normandy ; Immaculate conceptions and transparent moons ; Let's murder the moonlight! Futurists and the moon ; The agency of the night -- Tsukimi. Beyond the gateless gate: September Kyoto moon ; Cats' eyes and a McDonald's moon -- Vesuvio. The alarming mountain: Naples, Vesuvius and the moon -- Lunada. From Vegas to Vega: American moon ; The moon and the standing people -- Mondschein. Raking the shadows: a romantic moon -- Thamesis. Through midnight streets: the Thames and a London moon ; Moonset ; Blue moon on Stonewall Hill.
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ISBN:
9780226030968
Format :
Book