EMO-GI #32 - Atlas of Experience

I mentioned this wonderful book during the meeting of EMO-GI partners earlier today. I first bought a copy when I heard about it over twenty years ago and have several copies and have also given it as a gift to several people. A laminated copy of the main map from inside the book is also on the wall by my desk in my classroom. The book has created a number of maps based around different emotions and these are explained in the book.

Jean Klare and Louise Van Swaaij are the authors. It is available to buy second hand - there are lots of copies around at a low price. It belongs on your book shelves.

Thanks to Luc Zwartjes who let me know that the book is also available online in the original Dutch.

A sample can be downloaded from the Academia website - you will need to log in.

Description

An illustrated guide to the most adventurous journey there is: Life. Human beings have long been addicted to maps: they tell us where we are, how we got where we are, and where we are going next. ButThe Atlas of Experience is no ordinary book of maps. While adhering to the conventions of cartography, this atlas invites the traveler to follow routes through familiar-looking topography into hitherto uncharted realms of imagination, ideas, feelings and experience. Cradled by the Ocean of Possibilities, the Sea of ​​Plenty and Still Waters, this strangely familiar place has its capital Boom, its airports Escape and Freedom. It encompasses beautiful regions like the Peninsular of Pleasure as well as desolate wastes such as the Swamps of Boredom and the Bay of Melancholy. Then again there are the well-known Mountains of Work and the Safe Harbor of Home. And what about the Volcanoes of Passion and the border towns of Challenge and Doubt?

That's The Atlas of Experience the very special travel book that takes you on the long journey to where you are.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.