 | Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor Subjects: Landscape; Geographical perception; Senses and sensation; Landscape in literature; Greene Graham 1904– -- Criticism and interpretation; Lowry Malcolm 1909–1957 -- Criticism and interpretation; A landscape is a visual perception, the way in which we experience our environment through our eyes. In this provocative book Douglas Porteous ventures far beyond the visual into the myriad other sensory and existential perceptions -- otherscapes -- through which we encounter the worlds around and within us. Porteous J. Douglas : J. Douglas Porteous is Professor of Geography at the Unviersity of Victoria. He is the author of numerous other books, including The Modernization of Easter Island; and Planned to Death: The Annihilation of a Place called Howdendyke. |
