Mountains and memory: Embodied visions of ancient peaks in the nineteenth-century Aegean

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 217-232

  della Dora, Veronica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aegean; Embodiment; Landscape; Memory; Mountains; Performance

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MEMORY; MOUNTAIN REGION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SPATIAL COGNITION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 47749118370     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2008.00296.x     Document Type: Article

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