"HE AERIEAN LAND AND FE sens Mapping the ited by Wayne Fain Invisible Landscape Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place By Kent C. Ryden Foreword by Wayne FranklinUnivesity of ona Rese, loa ity 52242 Copyright © 1998y the Universi of ows Pest Allis resered Printed in he Unie Sate of America Design by Karen Copp [No pr ofthis oak may be reproduced oe edn any fr by ny ean eect ‘or mechanical ineling photocopying nt ‘cating. without pein in writing om the publi, Primed on sie paper Lary f Congress Claloingn-Pblica Date Ryden, Kent €, 1959- Mapping the ivsbe landscape: alklore, wings nd the sens f place by Ken C. yen foreword by Wayne Fain Pc —The Americ dae ie ries Includes bibligrphis efeences and fades, ISBN 0.97745.406-X (lat, SBN 0.87745-1160 (paper) 1. Landscape asessent—Unitd Sines. 2 Geographical perception — Unied Sates. 3, Faltlne United Sates, 4. American ays—Hisory and tlm. 5, Felllve—Kisbo-—Coeur Aleve Region. 1. Tile. Uh. Sees, 2.46529 arcndipity in doing research, 2 wryly humorous warning tothe effect that sometimes is «good idea to wea lng sleeves and gloves when doing Fieldwork in rural areas i the spring. As ¥ wander seross the border ce astm, no longer emulating Jans but anticipating he dive back cross Rhode Ilan, ll ofthe varied geographical approaches and per- spectveso which [he been exposed and in which have participated this day—the human experience of geographical transition, the hints ‘of historical geography which I read into the post, the newer culturl ography of roadside signs and pienie groves and the interpretations they invite, the farreaching, detileBacing perspective of surveyors and geadessts—fode before thoughts ofthe day's work and the exper- ‘ence of settling one las time on a most hillside, amidst piney shede ad cool beste, to wile in my notebook 1 Of Maps and Minds: The Invisible Landscape Now when Iwas litle chap I had passion for maps 1 ould ook fr hows at South Ameria, or Mie. or ‘Australi, and lose myself in all the glories of explo tion At that cme there were many Blank spaces on the ‘anh, and when I sw one that looked particularly in sign a map (but they al lok that) would pt me Singer on tan say, When I gro up 1 will go thee —JosePH CONRAD, Hear of Darkness 1 like to go othe real Correctionile someday; Ihave been living and working as writer inthe ether Corte ional, the ane in my mind There, Fam constants tinkering withthe maps of the Mies, trying a damp the dstonons ax much a posite while realizing that ac selected vision af the place is 2 map more detailed than the thing it represents, Cartography and Imagination ‘Tocxperionce a geographical place, i seems. is o want to communicate about it Inumerable works in «vatiey of media hae been produced aver the years a jople have attempted to tell hers hat certain places lok like and fel ik, what they men aid how thes fot that way—elrs ranging fom ravel itineraries and guidebooks to landscape paimtings and photograpi tothe formal academic desrip- tions of geographers and landscape historians, OF all the media of car ‘munication about geography, the map is probably the ist thal comes to ‘most people's minds, and it has certainly been on of the most sie and Tongclved. Maps of some sort have been prdvced by neatly all known cular inal known times. Archaeologists have discovered map ‘cient Sumerian cities, preserved on clay tablets, Pacific Islanders make