Christopher Pinney: The Waterless Sea [2018] hardback Condition:New In this hilarious memoir

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finds herself pregnant and banished to one of the most remote parts of the UK

it was able to evade hostile fighters and represented a serious threat to targets across the Soviet Bloc

Was collaboration or resistance the wisest response

Christopher Pinney: The Waterless Sea [2018] hardback Condition:New In this hilarious memoirMirages have long astonished travellers 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 despotism', a malign, but also enchanted, emblem. But the mirage motif is rarely simply condemnatory.