Geography and Vision

ISBN: 9781850438465 出版年：2012 页码：269 Denis Cosgrove Bloomsbury Publishing

Leading geographer Denis Cosgrove provides a series of personal reflections on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographicallof 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 imaginatiEquator. Extensively illustrated, this engaging work reveals the richness of the geographical imagination as expressed over the past five centuries.