The Rainbow Bridge
Author: Adrian Raeside
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Published: 2020-09-08
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781550179422
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gently humorous story that is a valuable fable for pet lovers of all ages.
Author: Adrian Raeside
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Published: 2020-09-08
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781550179422
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Author: Raymond L. Lee
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 654
ISBN-13: 9780271019772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Venerated as god and goddess, feared as demon and pestilence, trusted as battle omen, and used as a proving ground for optical theories, the rainbow's image is woven into the fabric of our past and present. From antiquity to the nineteenth century, the rainbow has played a vital role in both inspiring and testing new ideas about the physical world. Although scientists today understand the rainbow's underlying optics fairly well, its subtle variability in nature has yet to be fully explained. Throughout history the rainbow has been seen primarily as a symbol&—of peace, covenant, or divine sanction&—rather than as a natural phenomenon. Lee and Fraser discuss the role the rainbow has played in societies throughout the ages, contrasting its guises as a sign of optimism, bearer of Greek gods' messages of war and retribution, and a symbol of the Judeo-Christian bridge to the divine. The authors traverse the bridges between the rainbow's various roles as they explore its scientific, artistic, and folkloric visions. This unique book, exploring the rainbow from the perspectives of atmospheric optics, art history, color theory, and mythology, will inspire readers to gaze at the rainbow anew. For more information on The Rainbow Bridge, visit: &
Author: Thomas J. Harvey
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2013-07-29
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0806150424
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Colorado River Plateau is home to two of the best-known landscapes in the world: Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah and Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border. Twentieth-century popular culture made these places icons of the American West, and advertising continues to exploit their significance today. In Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley, Thomas J. Harvey artfully tells how Navajos and Anglo-Americans created fabrics of meaning out of this stunning desert landscape, space that western novelist Zane Grey called “the storehouse of unlived years,” where a rugged, more authentic life beckoned. Harvey explores the different ways in which the two societies imbued the landscape with deep cultural significance. Navajos long ago incorporated Rainbow Bridge into the complex origin story that embodies their religion and worldview. In the early 1900s, archaeologists crossed paths with Grey in the Rainbow Bridge area. Grey, credited with making the modern western novel popular, sought freedom from the contemporary world and reimagined the landscape for his own purposes. In the process, Harvey shows, Grey erased most of the Navajo inhabitants. This view of the landscape culminated in filmmaker John Ford’s use of Monument Valley as the setting for his epic mid-twentieth-century Westerns. Harvey extends the story into the late twentieth century when environmentalists sought to set aside Rainbow Bridge as a symbolic remnant of nature untainted by modernization. Tourists continue to flock to Monument Valley and Rainbow Bridge, as they have for a century, but the landscapes are most familiar today because of their appearances in advertising. Monument Valley has been used to sell perfume, beer, and sport utility vehicles. Encompassing the history of the Navajo, archaeology, literature, film, environmentalism, and tourism, Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley explores how these rock formations, Navajo sacred spaces still, have become embedded in the modern identity of the American West—and of the nation itself.
Author: Stanley M. Perry
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2021-03-22
Total Pages: 39
ISBN-13: 1645849880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rainbow Bridge is a true story that happened to the author when he was a teenager. The grinding rock took Stanley back to the culture of his ancestors because his little brother's, Beep's, mistake. Together they learned things about how to survive that they were never taught in school.
Author: REGINALD. FARRER
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781033128220
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Published: 1977
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Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 344
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