Geography and Vision
Subtitle: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World (International Library of Human Geography)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris; I.B. Tauris; In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 10, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781850438465
Subjects: Geography; History; History - General History; History: World; Historical Geography; History / Historical Geography
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.