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High mountains, polar expanses, volcanic peaks are exciting and
special environments. 13 leading international geographers explore
different aspects of these environments - disorientation,
exploration, native knowledge, polar research. This is the first
book to do this.High places - be they mountain peaks or the vast
expanses of the polar latitudes - have always captured the human
imagination. Inaccessible, extreme, they are commonly invested with
awe and reverence, as places of physical challenge, intense
experience. Increasingly, they are also treated as unique locations
for science."High Places" explores the fascinating geographies of
these special environments, revealing how senses are challenged,
objectivities exposed, cultural assumptions laid bare. Whether
walking the summit of Pico de Orizaba, the fourth highest volcano
in the northern hemisphere; recounting the tale of the American
explorer Charles Wilkes, charged with 'immoral mapping' in
Antarctica; or exploring the 200,000 year old Greenland ice core;
the international contributors reveal the richness and significance
of these unique locations. Embracing Europe, Asia, North and
Central America, Antarctica and the Arctic, "High Places" will
interest geographers, historians of science, and those interested
in polar/mountain studies, landscape, culture and environment.
The Iconography of Landscape draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the status of landscape as a cultural image. By applying the art-historical method of iconography--interpreting levels of meaning in human artifacts--to landscapes on paper or canvas, in literary form or on the ground, its contributors show how landscape is an important mode of human signification, informed by, and itself informing social, cultural and political issues. The range of examples is wide in terms of medium, period and place. It covers poetry and promotional literature, architectural design and urban ceremonial maps and paintings; the historical periods discussed range from sixteenth-century Italy to twentieth-century Canada. The book is introduced by the editors' discussion of the meanings of landscape and of the iconographic method in the context of contemporary theoretical and methodological debate on culture and society.
"Earthbound humans are unable to embrace more than a tiny part
of the planetary surface. But in their imagination they can grasp
the whole of the earth, as a surface or a solid body, to locate it
within infinities of space and to communicate and share images of
it."--from the Preface
Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from
space--to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god
Apollo--images of the earth as a globe had captured popular
imagination. In "Apollo's Eye, " geographer Denis Cosgrove examines
the historical implications for the West of conceiving and
representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body.
Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have
shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth,
from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of
a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human
unity.
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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