"Sunset rays burned the hilltop fiery. Further down, the land was already blue with a dusk through which river, bay, and distant sea glimmered argent. Cloud banks towered in the east, blood-colored, dwarfing the Sawtooth Mountains that marked Hanno's frontier." (p. 518)
Several colours but what of other senses? There should be at least two. Sure enough:
in Tom's captured flyer, savagely cold air sears his nostrils and numbs his fingers;
he hears the droning combustion power-plant and the clattering of the captured "fish"'s teeth.
When Poul Anderson mentions one sense, look for more.
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