Resources

for getting into mythic geography

• Links, books and blogs
• Quotes

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Links, books and blogs

The UK

• East of Elveden [accessed March 2013]
• Fen-edge Encounters [accessed August 2012]
• Justin Partyka's website  [accessed July 2012]
• Landscapism  [accessed December 2012]
• Reflections on nature and place at Mellis, Suffolk - Roger Deakin: 'Notes from Walnut Tree Farm' (Penguin, 2009; ISBN 0141039027). Details on Amazon.
• Redgrave Park website  [accessed July 2012]

The World 

• Creating sacred places through art in Yoruba culture - Ulli Beier: 'The Return of the Gods - The sacred art of Suzanne Wenger' (Cambridge University Press, 1975; ISBN 0-521-207177). Details on Amazon.

• A history of the plants, animals, and land of a town in Ohio - Thomas Fairchild Sherman: 'A Place on the Glacial Till. Time, Land and Nature within an American Town' (Oxford University Press, 2002; ISBN 0195104420). Details on Amazon.

• The Klamath mountains seen through the lens of 'evolutionary mythology' - David Rains Wallace: 'The Klamath Knot' (Sierra Club Books, 1984; ISBN 0871568179). Details on Amazon.

Philosophy

• How human perception and the world are intertwined - David Abram:  'The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World' (Vintage; 1997; ISBN 0679776397). Details on Amazon.
• Brilliant essays on mind and nature - Gregory Bateson: 'Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution and Epistemology' (University of Chicago Press, 2000; ISBN 0226039056) Details on Amazon.
• Ecophenomenology information [accessed January 2013]
• A radical anthropology of movement and being - Tim Ingold: 'Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description' (Routledge, 2011). Details on Amazon.
• Natural complexity explained - Donella H. Meadows: 'Thinking in Systems: A Primer' (Routledge, 2009; ISBN 1844077268).  Details on Amazon.
• Exploring the lived experience of place - David MacLennan, Donald Lawrence & W.F. Garrett-Petts: 'Storymapping: Exploring the Naturalists' Sense of Place' ('Rhizomes' #18, 2008).  [accessed January 2013]
• Psychogeography information -  http://www.psychogeography.co.uk/  [accessed August 2012]
• Understanding the world - Arthur Schopenhauer: 'The World as Will and Representation' (2 volumes, Dover Publications, 1966). Details on Amazon.
• Opening imagination to the power of evocative places - John Sallis: 'Topographies' (Indiana University Press, 2007). Details on Amazon.
• How we experience places - Yi-fu Tuan: 'Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience' (Hodder & Stoughton, 1977; ISBN 0713159715). Details on Amazon.

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Quotes

• "To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not width. A gap in a hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody meadow, the stream at the junction of four small fields – these are as much as a man can fully experience".                                  - Patrick Kavanagh

Quoted in http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/24/blakeney-point-coastal-nature-reserve-centenary?CMP=twt_fd [accessed 25.08.2012]

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