Yet taken together it forms a fascinating survey of the ways different artists have responded to the same set of givens: the land, the ocean, the dome of sky above and the uniquely glimmering light.
The first Polynesian voyagers used indigenous scientific astronomical knowledge, harnessing the night skyand the environment to guide them across 162 million square kilometres of ocean.
We were into open country now, running straight up the coast about a mile from the ocean on a two-lane blacktop road across the dunes with no clouds in the skyand a full moon blazing down on the Pacific.