TY - JOUR
AU - LOWENTHAL, DAVID
AB - ANNALS of the Association of American Geographers ~___ _~_____ Volume 51 September 1961 Number 3 GEOGRAPHY, EXPERIENCE, AND IMAGINATION TOWARDS A GEOGRAPHICAL EPISTEMOLOGY’ DAVID LOWENTHAL American Geographical Society, New York THE GENERAL AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL HE most fascinating terrae incognitae of “T all are those that lie within the minds WORLD VIEW and hearts of men.” With these words, John K. Neither the world nor our pictures of it are Wright concluded his 1946 presidential address identical with geography. Some aspects of geog- before the Association of American Geogra- raphy are recondite, others abstruse, occult, or phers. This paper considers the nature of these esoteric; conversely, there are many familiar terrae incognitae, and the relation between the features of things that geography scarcely con- world outside and the pictures in our heads2 siders. Beyond that of any other discipline, however, the subject matter of geography ap- This is an expanded version of a paper read at the proximates the world of general discourse; the XIXth International Geographical Congress, Stockholm, palpable present, the everyday life of man on August, 1960. For encouragement, advice, and criti- earth, is seldom far from our professional con- cism, I am grateful to George A. 
TI - GEOGRAPHY, EXPERIENCE, AND IMAGINATION: TOWARDS A GEOGRAPHICAL EPISTEMOLOGY1
JF - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1961.tb00377.x
DA - 1961-09-01
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SP - 241
EP - 260
VL - 51
IS - 3
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