Landscapes of the Mind: Worlds of Sense and Metaphor

by J. Douglas Porteous

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487580704
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	12/15/1990
Series:	Heritage
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

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.