Strange visions under a cliff in central India, October 1829
A world history of mirages: the thirst of the gazelle
'Fallacious evidence of the senses'
Cold and hot: the geography or mirage
Oriental mirages and 'spectatorial democracy'
From clam-monsters to representative democracy
The halted viewer and sfumato
The 'mirage medium of fancy'
Mirage and Oriental despotism
Keeping Mecca and Medina invisible
Inside Abdul Hamid II's head
Mirage pharmakon: wild and domestic
Epilogue: Real, but not true.
