Escapism
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Author
Publication
1998 - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md, Maryland
Language
English
Word Count
61,250 words, Guess
Page Count
245 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL346307M
- ISBN-100801859263
- OCLC Control Number38353921
- OCLC Control Numberescapism0000tuan
- Library of Congress Control Number98005366
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- Goodreads1261664
- LibraryThing189124
Classifications
- DDC153.3
- LCCBF575.E83 T83 1998
Description
In prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from nature's harsh realities. Today, we flee urban dangers for the safer, reconfigured world of suburban lawns and parks. According to Yi-Fu Tuan, people have always sought to escape in one way or another, sometimes foolishly, often creatively and ingeniously. Glass-tower cities, suburbs, shopping malls, Disneyland - all are among the most recent movements in our efforts to escape the constraints and uncertainties of life - ultimately, those imposed by nature.
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