GEG2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Convergent Thinking, Microsoft Powerpoint
12 Jan 2016
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Use senses, age, when, who with, why. Your gateway to discovery: concepts & constructs, 52 gateways cities, 11 topic headings, facts & figures, student gallery. Here and now is always contextualized by awareness of landscape in which we. Awareness of the myriad of landscapes through which we engage. Thematic ideas: travel, engage, experience, quotes, memes, structural concepts. One of the paradoxes of otherness is that in travel each conceives the other to be a foreigner. It has nothing to do with distance or the exotic. The whole point of travel is discovery, and few experiences can match the satisfaction of such an extraordinary discovery near home. Travel had to do with movement and truth: with trying everything, offering yourself to experience and then reporting on it. My travel book is about my trip, not yours or anyone else"s. Even if someone had come with me and written a book about the trip it would have been a different book.
