This book presents a comprehensive introduction to, and overview of, the entire range of Olsson’s geography from the early days of spatial science to his contemporary engagement with, and critique of, cartographical reasoning.

In this fascinating text Gunnar Olsson tells the story of an arkographer, who with Pallas Athene’s blessings, travels down the Red River Valley, navigates the Kantian Island of Truth, and takes a house-tour through the Crystal Palace, the ...

Starting from that simple observation, renowned geographer Gunnar Olsson offers in Abysmal an astonishingly erudite critique of the way human thought and action have become deeply immersed in the rhetoric of cartography and how this ...

... Gunnar Olsson 12 Crazy Wisdom and Recovering the Human in Olsson's Method of Cartographic Critique 169 David Jansson 13 Chiasm of Thought - and - Action 189 Gunnar Olsson 14 Chiasm Rubric 205 Jette Hansen - Møller Part D Maps 15 ...

For once, the responsi bilities are shared. We feel that the collection gives a fair representation of the activities at the frontier of human geography in North America.