Saint-Exupéry's Geography Lesson: Art and Science in the Creation and Cultivation of Landscape Values

Bunkše, Edmunds V.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1990.tb00005.x

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“…From there the sense may gradually attenuate outward: a neighborhood, for instance, may feel more like home than does a mall at the edge of the suburb but less like home than the house itself. Home is a multidimensional and profoundly symbolic term that cannot be mapped as an exclusively spatial concept, but it can be depicted as one aspect of human emotional territory (Bunkse 1990). Home as an expression of personal or group identity is geographically transportable in the human quest for a place in the world, a point of reference.…”

Section: Geographical Properties Of Home Regionsmentioning

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Home as a Region

Terkenli¹

1995

Geographical Review

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. American Geographical Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Geographical Review.ABSTRACT. This essay explores the processes by which place becomes home and examines the characteristics of a home region that distinguish it from other types of regions. In contemporary Western society, weakening human identification with place and with social groups seems to be reducing home to a mere accumulation of habits that are elaborations on modern or postmodern lifestyles. A home region is a system of interlinked patterns of habitual association and attachment. However, realization that the world is increasingly interconnected and interdependent may produce the backlash of a return to home contexts that are most familiar and intimate. Intense affection for home points to a dialectical relationship between the extent of personal or collective homes and attachment to them.

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Section: Geographical Properties Of Home Regionsmentioning

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Home as a Region

Terkenli¹

1995

Geographical Review

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“…In addition to the literature that focuses on Humboldt and his intellectual legacies, a diffuse literature engages Humboldt's influences on geography and geographical scholarship, from passing mention to more detailed analysis. Various articles and chapters of books have considered Humboldt's relationship to philosophical and academic humanism (BunkSe 1990;Buttimer i99o,i993,2001;Tuan 1997) and connected it in part to the development of North American geography. Similarly, a number of articles on the history of North American geography invoke Humboldt in various ways (Gade 1983;Livingstone 1984;Martin 1998;Cosgrove and Martins 2000;Heyman 2001).…”

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Alexander Von Humboldt's Image and Influence in North American Geography, 1804–2004

Mathewson¹

2006

Geographical Review

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ABSTRACT. Alexander von Humboldt is universally identified as a key figure in laying the foundations for modern geography. His main sites of research and scholarly production were centered on Europe, Latin America, and Russia. He drew on global sources of geographical data and knowledge in constructing and producing his voluminous works. Although he only briefly knew North America firsthand—at the outset of his career, in the late spring of 1804—he maintained a lifelong interest in the realm, especially in the United States. In turn, many North American scholars were admirers and followers of his perspectives, practices, and publications. Although geography did not emerge as an institutionally based discipline in the United States until the late nineteenth century, Humboldt's influence and impact on its antecedents were considerable. Contrary to conventional wisdom, his authority and influence in geography persisted well beyond Humboldt's death in 1859. His vision of demonstrating nature's unity in diversity and his enlightened views on social issues have continued to appeal to select sectors and actors in North American geography, especially Latin Americanists, historians of the discipline, and, more recently, proponents of an engaged, critical geography.

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“…(p. 179) Such a melding of pilot and professor is nothing entirely startling. After all, the adept student of physiography Erwin Raisz, a cartographer and for twenty years a lecturer in geography at Harvard, explained in more than one essay that he did much of his preliminary landform sketching in the 1930s and 1940s while flying-exactly as Humbert began doing twenty years after Raisz's (1957) Saint-Exupéry (1984), author of The Little Prince but the writer of even better nonfiction (Bunkse 1990), in his foreword: "The plane is a machine, no doubt, but what an instrument of analysis! This instrument lets us discover the true face of the earth" (p. xii).…”

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The Geographer, Flying High

Starrs

2015

The AAG Review of Books

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Saint-Exupéry's Geography Lesson: Art and Science in the Creation and Cultivation of Landscape Values

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

Home as a Region

Home as a Region

Alexander Von Humboldt's Image and Influence in North American Geography, 1804–2004

The Geographer, Flying High

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