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Earth Shapers
Maxim Samson
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
For many of us, geography has an inexorable quality. Brimming with real and imaginary objects like mountains, oceans, and borders, our world seems quite literally set in stone.
But over time, we have become experts at reshaping our surroundings, both through ingenuity and brute force. From the Qhapaq Ñan, South America's 'Great Road', to the Panama Canal; from Mozambique's railways to Korea's sacred Baekdu-daegan mountain range, Samson explores how humans have etched our needs onto the natural landscape, and in doing so, changed the very course of history.
A sweeping work that touches on ecology, sociology, history and politics, Earth Shapers argues that, far from being prisoners to the inevitability of geography, we are instead fundamental and intrinsic to it.
Rezensionen
<i>Invisible Lines</i> is a fascinating, detailed exploration of the hidden boundaries that carve up the world ... it is a pleasure to accompany Samson to the Malaria Belt, inside eruvim (markers of a single domestic space within which fewer Sabbath regulations apply), or along the border of Portugal to discover why vultures prefer not to cross it
A fascinating exploration of the lesser-known and more subtle borders across the earth and the surprising ways in which they shape our lives
Old worlds enhanced, new worlds exposed and challenged ... a wise and thought-provoking series of raids across borders we thought we knew and others made visible to us, by Maxim Samson'
Endlessly interesting
Fascinating...a truly original adventure into new ways of exploring a sense of place
<b>Praise for <i>INVISIBLE LINES</i></b>
An illuminating glimpse of the chain reactions of human and physical geography
Utterly engrossing! Samson's literary atlas of the world's unseen boundaries and how they'
A chance to see the world anew through the eyes of a wonderfully curious new writer
Kundenbewertungen
atlas of imagined places, atlas of extinct countries, royal geographical society, Tim Marshall, Geography, history of world trade in maps, terra incongnita, Prisoners of geography, Border Wars, the phantom atlas, atlas of improbable places, Atlas of Unusual Borders, maps, nowherelands, atlas obscura, atlas of the unexpected, psychogeography