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King of Camargue

King of Camargue

Ives, George B.
Aicard, Jean Francois Victor

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Fiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1977592201
ISBN13: 9781977592200
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 24 2017
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Excerpt argue everything is strange. There are ponds like the huge central pond, the Vaccares, in the centre of which one can wade with ease; there are tracts of land where the pedestrian sinks out of sight and is drowned. Here deception is easy. Yonder green slime that you take for a level plain--beware!--men are drowned therein; those vast stretches of water which seem to you small seas--return that way to-morrow; they will have evaporated, leaving only a mirror of white salt that crackles beneath your feet. Yonder, do you see the calm, deep water? and trees on the shore? Ah! no, you can run along the surface of that water; it is dry land; the mirage alone formed those trees, just as it showed you the little child walking a league away, apparently near at hand and very tall. A land of visions, dreams, and hard work. A land of sedentary folk, who inhabit a vast space on the shore of endless waters, with an infinity of variations of mirages, sunbeams, reflections, and bright colors. A land of fever, where stro

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