Description: In Geography and the Human Spirit, Buttimer ranges widely from Plato to Barry Lopez, from the Upanishads to Goethe, taking an interdisciplinary look at the ways in which human beings have turned to natural science, theology, and myth to form visions of the earth as a human habitat.
Brief description: Anne Buttimer is a professor of geography at University College, Dublin.
Review Quotes: Geography and the Human Spirit is a pilgrimage into the workings of one of geography's most conceptual and yet focused thinkers.
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