ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHIES
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ALTERNATIVE GEOGRAPHIES (ebook)

JOHN RENNIE SHORT

$1,200.00
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9781317904601
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An accessible and groundbreaking text that takes a fresh view of contemporary geographical issues by looking at the geographies we have lost.Geography means writing about the world. Alternative ways of writing about the world are introduced and critically evaluated. The book discusses medieval cosmologies, Renaissance magic, feng shui, and the knowledge systems of indigenous people. Alternative Geographies provides an alternative way of looking, describing and understanding the world

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