In the Memory of the Map by Christopher Norment

In the Memory of the Map by Christopher Norment

Throughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment. Mesmerised by them since the age of eight or nine, he found himself courted and seduced by maps, which served functional and allegorical roles in showing him worlds that he might come to know and helping him understand worlds that he had already explored. Maps may have been the stuff of his dreams, but they sometimes drew him away from places where he should have remained firmly rooted. In the Memory of the Map explores the complex relationship among maps, memory, and experience—what might be called a “cartographical psychology” or “cartographical history.” Interweaving a personal narrative structured around a variety of maps with stories about maps as told by scholars, poets, and fiction writers, this book provides a dazzlingly rich personal and intellectual account of what many of us take for granted. A dialogue between desire and the maps of his life, an exploration of the pleasures, utilitarian purposes, benefits, and character of maps, this rich and powerful personal narrative is the matrix in which Norment embeds an exploration of how maps function in all our lives. Page by page, readers will confront the aesthetics, mystery, function, power, and shortcomings of maps, causing them to reconsider the role that maps play in their lives.

“Christopher Norment has produced a wonderful book blending a memoir of personal challenges and growth with a non fiction account of maps he has encountered over his lifetimeNorment’s writing style doesn’t simply tell a story—it evokes the sights, smells, and feelings of the places. I am constantly conjuring my own history as I read his.”—Fred Swanson, USDA Forest Service

Norment, Christopher: - Christopher Norment, professor of environmental science and biology at the College at Brockport, State University of New York, is the author of In the Memory of the Map: A Cartographic Memoir and Return to Warden's Grove: Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows.

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ISBN 13	9781609380779
ISBN 10	1609380770
Titel	In the Memory of the Map
Autor	Christopher Norment
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Iowa Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2012-03-15
Seitenanzahl	264
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