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Geography and vision : seeing, imagining and representing the world /

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 -...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cosgrove, Denis E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, ©2008.
Colección:International library of human geography ; 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Geography and vision
  • Extra-terrestrial geography
  • Gardening the Renaissance world
  • Mapping Arcadia
  • Measures of America
  • Wilderness, habitable earth and the nation
  • The morphological eye
  • Ruskin's European visions
  • Moving maps
  • Carto-city
  • Seeing the Pacific
  • Seeing the equator.