Geography and Vision : Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World
Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781850438472
- ISBN-10: 1850438471
- Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
- Publish Date: June 2008
- Dimensions: 9.07 x 6.31 x 0.73 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.32 pounds
- Page Count: 272
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