{"product_id":"romantic-geography-yi-fu-tuan-9780299296803","title":"Romantic Geography: In Search of the Sublime Landscape","description":"Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth--our home--habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and analysis, but no acts of chivalry, no sense of quest. Not long ago, however, geography was romantic. Heroic explorers ventured to forbidding environments--oceans, mountains, forests, caves, deserts, polar ice caps--to test their power of endurance for reasons they couldn't fully articulate. Why climb Everest? \"Because it is there.\" Yi-Fu Tuan has established a global reputation for deepening the field of geography by examining its moral, universal, philosophical, and poetic potentials and implications. In his twenty-second book, \u003ci\u003eRomantic Geography\u003c\/i\u003e, he continues to engage the wide-ranging ideas that have made him one of the most influential geographers of our time. In this elegant meditation, he considers the human tendency--stronger in some cultures than in others--to veer away from the middle ground of common sense to embrace the polarized values of light and darkness, high and low, chaos and form, mind and body. In so doing, venturesome humans can find salvation in geographies that cater not so much to survival needs (or even to good, comfortable living) as to the passionate and romantic aspirations of their nature. \u003ci\u003eRomantic Geography\u003c\/i\u003e is thus a paean to the human spirit, which can lift us to the heights but also plunge us into the abyss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yi-Fu Tuan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299296806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299296803\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.59h x 5.86w x 0.76d","brand":"Yi-Fu Tuan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981537706239,"sku":"9780299296803","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b49c65f0-c730-4110-b9c1-1062bc83b3cc.jpg?v=1683256159","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/romantic-geography-yi-fu-tuan-9780299296803","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}