Icons of the sea, pop culture seductresses, and mythical sirens: mermaids have been swimming in and out of our collective consciousness since the beginning of recorded time, and their images have graced folk-art pieces for centuries. Here's a gorgeous gift book about these legendary sea nymphs that gracefully combines full-color art -- including paintings, sculptures, and illustrations by Paul Gaugin and Gustav Klimt -- with literary quotations and lore that span more than 2,000 years. Text includes selections from Ovid, Shakespeare, Goethe, Melville, and Poe, plus "The Little Mermaid" and "The Legend of Undine."
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Kerry Colburn is a San Francisco-based author who often writes about the joys of being fun, fabulous,and female. Her work includes the pop culture journals My Dysfunctional Life, My Fabulous Life, and The Rebound Journal: Breaking Up and Bouncing Back with Style, all with Chronicle Books. She is also the author of The Woman’s Book of Simple Delights and Mermaids: Sirens of the Sea, both with Running Press.
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Kerry Colburn is a Seattle-based author, editor, columnist, and publishing consultant, as well as mom of two young girls. A former publishing executive, she now happily writes books from her (often chaotic) home or a variety of coffee shops in her neighborhood. Her most recent title is "Mama's Big Book of Little Lifesavers: 398 Time-Savers, Money-Savers, and Sanity-Savers" (Chronicle Books). Kerry also offers fun and successful publishing seminars through her company, The Business of Books. If you have a book idea, check out www.bizofbooks.com to learn more. You can also visit Kerry's parenting blog at www.secondchildfirst.com, or read her column at www.SeattlesChild.com.
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For Mermaid Lovers,
By Miss Mermaid "Respect Water" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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I think I have almost every Mermaid artbook available. This one is definetly worthy of your collection. It displays spectacular images, poems and literature. If you like this you will also love Mermaids by Elizabeth Ratisseau.
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Mermaids galore,
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Don't be fooled by the somewhat bland cover of this book. The pages within contain lots of wonderful mermaid images. This book is a compiliation of mermaid art. It features mostly paintings but it also includes a few carvings, statues, jewelry, and others. Each page displays a picture along with a quote that relates to mermaids, to the sea, or invokes the spirit of either. These quotes are taken from poems, plays, journals, ancient writings, etc.
I recommend this book to anyone who loves mermaids or beautiful art. If you like this book, Mermaids (Magical Beings) is very similar. If you want to learn more about mermaids, I recommend Magickal Mermaids and Water Creatures and The Mythology of the Mermaid and Her Kin.
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But remember always, as I told you at first that this is all a fairy tale, and only fun and pretense; and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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But remember always, as I told you at first that this is all a fairy tale, and only fun and pretense; and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Dick Fitzgerald, Lake of Zug, Lord Tennyson New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Three Golden Apples by Nathaniel Hawthorne on page 81, and Back Matter
- Twilight of the Gods (Die Gotterdammerung): English National Opera Guide 31 (English National Opera Guides) by Richard Wagner on page 24, and Back Matter
- Little Mermaid (Favourite Tales) by Audrey Daly on page 87, and Back Matter
- The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen on page 87, and Back Matter
- Little Mermaid by Sue Harris in Back Matter
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