02798nam 2200637Ia 450 991046354000332120200520144314.01-60938-096-7(CKB)3170000000046244(EBL)912119(OCoLC)793166884(SSID)ssj0000600685(PQKBManifestationID)11422478(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600685(PQKBWorkID)10601201(PQKB)10923579(MiAaPQ)EBC912119(OCoLC)809317404(MdBmJHUP)muse16245(Au-PeEL)EBL912119(CaPaEBR)ebr10551802(EXLCZ)99317000000004624420110901d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn the memory of the map[electronic resource] a cartographic memoir /by Christopher NormentIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20121 online resource (265 p.)Sightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfictionDescription based upon print version of record.1-60938-077-0 Includes bibliographical references.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 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. In the Memory of the Map explores the complex relationship among maps, memory, anSightline books.CartographyMethodologyCartographyPhilosophyMap readingMapsSymbolsElectronic books.CartographyMethodology.CartographyPhilosophy.Map reading.MapsSymbols.526Norment Christopher869306MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463540003321In the memory of the map1940746UNINA