Maelström

The Lofoten Maelström in Norway, one of the world’s most powerful systems of tidal eddies, has been a locus of terror and imagination for centuries. First depicted in renaissance cartography, the myth of the vortex was propagated through the occult science of Athanasius Kircher and found its most c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tyrrell, Jonathan
Language:en
Published: 2009
Subjects:
Poe
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4703