Personal Geographies
An Amazon cardboard bundle has just landed on my doormat. In it is a wonderful book called Personal Geographies. It’s full of weird and wonderful maps of real and imaginary places.
As the flap says “Mapmaking fulfills one of our deepest desires: understanding the world around us and our place in it. But maps need not show just continents and oceans; there are maps to heaven and hell; to happiness and despair; maps of moods, matrimony, and mythological places. There are maps to popular culture, from Gulliver’s Island to Gilligan’s Island; speculative maps of the world before it was known; and maps to secret places known only to the mapmaker.”
Who wouldn’t want a peek at that?
Reference: Katharine Harmon (2004), Personal Geographies and Maps of the Imagination, Princeton Architectural Press, New York
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Reader Comments (1)
Yes, thanks Oliver - I have bought this straight away!
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