Yet taken together it forms a fascinating survey of the ways different artists have responded to the same set of givens: the land, theocean, the dome of sky above andthe uniquely glimmering light.
The first Polynesian voyagers used indigenous scientific astronomical knowledge, harnessing the night skyandthe 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 theocean on a two-lane blacktop road across the dunes with no clouds in theskyand a full moon blazing down on the Pacific.