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Contents Page: v List of Illustrations Page: vii Acknowledgements Page: x Introduction: Landscape, map and vision Page: 1 Part I: Geographic and cosmological visions Page: 13 Chapter 1: Geography and Vision Page: 15 Chapter 2: Extra-terrestial geography Page: 34 Part II: Landscape Visions: Europe Page: 49 Chapter 3: Gardening the Renaissance world Page: 51 Chapter 4: Mapping Arcadia Page: 68 Part III: Landscape Visions: America Page: 85 Chapter 5: Measures of America Page: 87 Chapter 6: Wilderness, habitable earth and the nation Page: 104 Part IV: John Ruskin: vision, landscape and mapping Page: 119 Chapter 7: The morphological eye Page: 121 Chapter 8: Ruskin's European visions Page: 135 Part V: Cartographic visions Page: 153 Chapter 9: Moving Maps Page: 155 Chapter 10: Carto-city Page: 169 Part VI: Metageographic visions Page: 183 Chapter 11: Seeing the Pacific Page: 185 Chapter 12: Seeing the Equator Page: 203 Notes Page: 219 Index Page: 249

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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.

Geography and Vision PDF

2008·4.93 MB·English

by Denis Cosgrove

#History #Geography #Science #Earth Sciences #Social Science #Human Geography #Historical Geography

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Contents Page: v List of Illustrations Page: vii Acknowledgements Page: x Introduction: Landscape, map and vision Page: 1 Part I: Geographic and cosmological visions Page: 13 Chapter 1: Geography and Vision Page: 15 Chapter 2: Extra-terrestial geography Page: 34 Part II: Landscape Visions: Europe Page: 49 Chapter 3: Gardening the Renaissance world Page: 51 Chapter 4: Mapping Arcadia Page: 68 Part III: Landscape Visions: America Page: 85 Chapter 5: Measures of America Page: 87 Chapter 6: Wilderness, habitable earth and the nation Page: 104 Part IV: John Ruskin: vision, landscape and mapping Page: 119 Chapter 7: The morphological eye Page: 121 Chapter 8: Ruskin's European visions Page: 135 Part V: Cartographic visions Page: 153 Chapter 9: Moving Maps Page: 155 Chapter 10: Carto-city Page: 169 Part VI: Metageographic visions Page: 183 Chapter 11: Seeing the Pacific Page: 185 Chapter 12: Seeing the Equator Page: 203 Notes Page: 219 Index Page: 249

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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