Publication

2008-06-10 - I. B. Tauris

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008298288
  • LibraryThing5336194
  • Goodreads7048583

Classifications

  • LCCG71.5 .C685 2008
  • LCCG71.5 .C67 2008

Description

"Leading geographer Denis Cosgrove provides a series of personal reflections on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. In a series of eloquent essays he draws upon pictorial images - including maps, sketches, cartoons, paintings, and photographs - to explore and elaborate upon the many and varied ways in which the vast and varied earth, and at times the heavens beyond, have been both imagined and represented as a place of human habitation. The essays include reflections upon geographical discovery; urban cartography and utopian visions; ideas of landscape and the shaping of America; wilderness and masculinity; conceptions of the Pacific; and the imaginative grip of the Equator. Extensively illustrated, this engaging work reveals the richness of the geographical imagination as expressed over the past five centuries."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Geography and VisionHardcoverI. B. Tauris2008-06-10

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