In the memory of the map : a cartographic memoir / by Christopher Norment.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norment, Christopher.

Series:

Sightline books.

Sightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--Methodology.

Cartography.

Cartography--Philosophy.

Map reading.

Maps--Symbols.

Maps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout his life, maps have been a source of imagination and wonder for Christopher Norment. Mesmerized 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.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; First Maps; The Past Is Always with Me; What I Desired Most Was Escape; It Was Impossible Not to Wonder; Middle Maps; The Silence Was Like No Other; They Always Knew Their Way; The Truth Shall Be Revealed; Late Maps; Fathering the Map; In the Fullness of Time; And Then I Was Home; Without a Map; Acknowledgments and Permissions; Source Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781609380960

1609380967

OCLC:

793166884