- Overview
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Just as historical knowledge enriches your travel, geographical knowledge adds more pleasure to your travel.
- Book Intro
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A unique, rich travel experience happens only when you think about how to appreciate your travel, not just where to travel.
In this travelogue, a geographer observes people and places from a humanities perspective. For instance, you should not only take selfies at Seonamsa, a Korean temple famous for red plum blossoms but you should also take in its unique scent, sound, and atmosphere. The sunset at Monument Valley, USA will also feel entirely different with just a little bit of geographical knowledge of how the iconic landscapes of countless western movies were filmed here. In addition, the author says that traveling by train can also create a surprisingly different travel experience. Of course, there is no right answer, but a little knowledge about geography can definitely take your travel to the next level.
This book is especially useful to those who dream of a unique travel experience, something richer, less mundane. Geography is not just a way with directions, but a knowledge that helps you learn about the relationship between people and places. It is a dynamic life story about people who live in particular natural environments. That being said, some geological knowledge turns a traveler, who could otherwise remain a passive onlooker, into an active participant; they can broaden their horizons by looking into their travel more closely. This book is a must-read for those who want a deep understanding of travel, who want to digress from their usual, conventional travel, and who think pictures just will not suffice.
- About the Author
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Lee Youngmin
YoungMin Lee is a professor of social studies education and multicultural/intercultural studies at Ewha Womans University. He holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degrees in geology education from Seoul National University in Korea, and a doctorate in geology and anthropology from Louisiana State University, USA. His main research is humanities geology—the relationship between people, places, and cultures. He is particularly interested in travel and cross-border migration during globalization and stresses the importance of travel as understood from the humanities perspective. He co-wrote The World’s Cities and Architecture, and How Migration Changed Incheon. He also translated Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces, Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century, Cuban the Landscapes: Heritage, Memory, and Place, and Geographies of Postcolonialism: Spaces of Power and Representation into Korean.
- Selection
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Selected as the Excellent Publishing Contents by Korea Publishing Industry Promotion Agency in 2019
