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Geographical Imagination

Geographical Imagination - Interpreting the world around you based on your own unique understandings, perceptions, and knowledge

Examples in A Bone from a Dry Sea:

"At home the bathroom was right next door to her own room, and she could find her way there with her eyes shut, almost without waking up. Here it was way down the hill, and there might be leopards, and she had to wait till it was light. Homesickness had suddenly ambushed her (41)."

"...tapped out her slippers in case scorpions had decided they'd make a cozy lair... On the way up the path from the latrines she found that Africa had its own smell, which the dawn dew brought out, faint and sharp... (42)"

Dating

It is possible to tell the time periodwithin which this book is set by the following examples:

    You don't get that on TV (42). This shows that the book is set in a fairly recent time period, because TV was only made widely available within the past 50-100 years.

    That reminds me,' she said. 'This book I read- it wasn't one of the ones you said, but it was on the same shelf. It said the reason we don't have fur like chimps and gorillas... (44) This shows that the theory of evolution was in the process of acceptance and probing at this time period.