Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS COPY -- Figures -- Introduction -- The myth of Erisichthon -- 1. From Cosmography to Geography -- Ptolemy's cosmography -- The Arabic influence -- Renaissance cosmologies -- The reordering of things -- 2. A Heart-shaped World? -- Cartography and the Renaissance -- Cordiform maps -- 3. Ancient Geographies -- Feng shui -- Geomancy -- 4. The Speaking Land -- Trickster figures -- Alternative notions of time and space -- The speaking land -- The wandering ground -- 5. Postscript: Alternative Geographies, New Cosmologies -- A connected world -- A matter of method -- Celestial and terrestrial -- Macrocosm-microcosm -- Space and place -- References -- Index