{"product_id":"kirin-quest-yuki-jungesblut","title":"Kirin Quest, Yuki Jungesblut","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe mythical \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qilin\" style=\"color: #000000;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKirin\u003c\/a\u003e is a noble, gentle creature from ancient times that is said to bring peace, justice and happiness. The Kirin is of hybrid nature, with the head of a dragon, the body and legs of an ox or a deer, covered in scales and clad in fire.  Sometimes it is compared to the dragon or to the unicorn, but despite the family resemblance it is really neither but its own kind. It used to be found in the lands around the East China Sea and depending on territory and era, its descriptions and interpretations vary remarkably. Clearly though, nowadays it would be good news if the Kirin could at least be sighted.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSo Yuki Jungesblut set out to the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_China_Sea\" style=\"color: #000000;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEast China Sea\u003c\/a\u003e. Equipped with an unlikely and somewhat displaced travel guide and companion – \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_Carroll\" style=\"color: #000000;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLewis Carroll’s\u003c\/a\u003e grand (nonsense) poem \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hunting_of_the_Snark\" style=\"color: #000000;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Hunting of the Snark \u003c\/a\u003eshe circled the sea in the hope to find the mythical Kirin following the ancient routes of trade and exchange between the countries bordering the waters of the East China Sea.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe book Kirin Quest tells the story of this endeavour, and with the Kirin as its leitmotif, it invites the  curious reader on a journey between imagination, fiction, and reality connecting diverse worlds and times. The book weaves a web of impressions of a region, of exchange and trade, deities and rocks, nature and culture, East and West, present, pasts and futures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLike its namesake, the book is \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hybrid\" style=\"color: #000000;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehybrid\u003c\/a\u003e in nature, part travelogue, part artist’s book, part photo book part reading endeavou – and just as much the narrative of a dream of discovering the world as it is the rewriting of a temporary utopia.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #404040;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIt is a project giving space to the human desire to search –  for happiness, knowledge, belonging  – and to discover, collect, tell and share stories\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished by Yuki Jungesblut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSoftcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e420 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e163 x 230 mm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eISBN: 9783903334229\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yuki Jungesblut","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46749876715851,"sku":"KQYJ01","price":29.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/files\/KirinQuest.jpg?v=1692113262","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/da\/products\/kirin-quest-yuki-jungesblut","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}