The Waterless Sea A Curious History of Mirages
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 817
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- ISBN
- 9781780239699
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Waterless Sea is an inquiry into the cultural history of mirages that entailed research in the physics of anomalous visual phenomena, and the cultural and also political history of numerous regions beyond the habitual specialism of the author (the Artic, Japan, Maghreb, West Asia etc). The book distils many years of primary research and critical thinking. The research encompassed diverse literary sources from 1800 onwards and visual sources including lithographs, engravings, photography, and internet images. It featured as a book of the week in Nature, and was reviewed in publications as diverse as Physics Today, Folklore, and The Economist.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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