Geography and Vision Hardback
by Denis E. Cosgrove
Part of the International Library of Human Geography series
Hardback
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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/04/2008
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- ISBN:9781850438465
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/04/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9781850438465
