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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. List of figures
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Introduction: Confronting emptiness in history
  9. 1. ‘Take my advice, go to Mongan’s Hotel’: barrenness and abundance in the late Victorian Connemara landscape
  10. 2. Amid the horrors of nature: ‘dead’ environments at the margins of the Russian empire
  11. 3. Empty spaces, aviation and the Brazilian nation: the metaphor of conquest in narratives of Edu Chaves’s cross-country flights in 1912
  12. 4. Looking over the ship railings: the colonial voyage and the empty ocean in Empire Marketing Board posters
  13. 5. Spectral figures: Edward Hopper’s empty Paris
  14. 6. Landscapes of loss: the semantics of empty spaces in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction
  15. 7. Surveying the creative use of vacant space in London, c.1945–95
  16. 8. Urban prehistoric enclosures: empty spaces/busy places
  17. Index

Index

abundance, 8, 26, 29

Académie Colarossi, 117

Académie Julian, 117

Action Space, 155 n. 13, 159–60, 162, 163, 165, 171, 174

activity

economic, 97

human, 1, 4, 5, 12, 24, 36, 51, 52, 53, 152, 165, 170, 176, 181, 191, 196, 198

lack of, 11

subsistence, 22

transient, 37

adventure, 31, 32, 71, 105, 142

narratives of, 20

sources of, 24

aeroplane, 59, 63, 66 and n. 25, 68, 75, 78 n. 76, 97

integratory function of, 76, 81 n. 79, 82, 97 n. 56

Africa, 28, 33, 40, 46, 151

airspace, conquest of, 62–3, 84–5

album, hotel, see hotel visitors’ book

Amery, Leopold, 91, 94

Atlantic Ocean, 30, 72, 90

slave trade, 87, 90

Atlantic world, 64

America (North), 4, 33, 65 and n. 17, 70 n. 44, 90, 136, 138, 141, 162

car culture, 141–2

imports to Russia, 42, 43

Amu-Dar’ia river, 37, 38, 41, 42

Antarctica, 33

anti-landscape, 36, 39

apocalypse, the, 11, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 149

representations of, 133, 134, 135, 139, 142

Appleton, Jay, 98

Aral Sea, 36, 39, 50, 51

archaeology, 5, 8, 12, 179, 182, 184, 188 n. 24, 196, 198, 200

art, 87, 158, 159, 170, 174, 185

American, 114, 130

colonial, 90

community, 171, 175

French, 114, 121, 130

maritime, 109

public, 196

students in Paris, 10, 113, 114, 116, 117, 121, 128, 129

study of, 118, 130

artists, American, 113

in Paris, 114, 116, 117

Ashcan School, the, 129

Asia, Central, 9, 38, 43, 45, 47–8, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 56

Russian annexation of, 34, 36, 55

Russian responses to, 34, 36, 38, 45–6, 47–50, 54, 55

Australia, 33, 40, 46

authorship, social, 16

aviation see also flight, 9, 59, 85–6

and empty spaces, 61, 62–7, 71–84, 85

heroism of, 62, 71, 72, 75, 76, 85

as integration, 61 n. 6, 63, 65–6, 76, 82, 85

on maps, 76–84, 86

narratives of, 71–2, 74–6, 84, 85

and nation, 59, 60, 62, 65–6, 68, 76, 82, 85

pioneers of, 62, 69, 71, 76, 85, 86

as spectacle, 67

symbolism of, 66 n. 24, 85, 86

technology of, 62, 63, 67, 70

terminology of, 67–71

Balfarg henge, 181, 193–8

burial at, 194

emptiness of, 187, 191, 196–7, 198–9, 200

excavation of, 193–4, 199

use of, 194, 196, 197, 198

bandeirantes, 9, 72 and n. 53, 73 and n. 55, 74, 75, 76, 80, 81, 84, 85

barrenness, 8–9, 16, 17, 19, 20, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 56

Berg, Lev, 50–51, 52

birds, 19, 29, 30, 40, 63

Black Sands see Kara Kum

borders, 4, 30, 36, 73, 84 n. 82, 138

Brazil, 9, 58–9, 64, 67, 70 n. 45, 80, 84

coastal mountains (the Serra), 71, 74, 75–6, 85

elite in 60, 64, 66, 85

litoral, 9, 60, 64 and n. 13, 65, 73, 74

interior (sertão), 9, 64 and n. 14, 73, 84, 85

media in, 62, 67, 70–2, 74–6

nation-building in, 60, 61, 62, 66, 73, 76, 84, 85, 86

transportation network, 64–5, 75 and n. 66

Broich cursus, 181, 185–7, 199

Bukhara, 38, 51, 52

Camden, 131, 159, 160, 168, 169, 171

Camley Street Natural Park, 165, 168–70, 174

Camões, Luís de, The Lusiads, 72

Canada, 95

capitalism, 6, 7, 8, 11, 21, 89, 97, 134, 135 and n. 8, 139, 144, 145–7, 149

Carna, 15, 17, 19–20, 22, 23, 26–30, 31, 32

Carna Industrial Fund, 20, 23 and n. 29, 26, 28

car parks, 171, 175, 182, 186

cars, 55, 65, 66, 69 and n. 40, 70, 75

and n. 66, 184

as safe space, 141–2

cartography see also maps, 5, 9, 51, 62, 73, 74, 76–84, 86, 90

maritime, 90

Caspian Sea, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 47, 48

Chaves, Eduardo Pacheco (Edu), 9, 62, 68–9 and n. 38, 70 and n. 44, 71–6, 78, 80, 82, 84, 85, 86

citizens, 152, 157, 174

of empire, 98, 103

neurotic, 137, 149–50

city, the, see also space, urban, 134, 138, 143–4, 151–2, 153–5, 156, 165, 174, 175, 177

industrial, 7, 138, 139, 140

cityscape, 5, 129

civilization, 16, 40, 41, 43, 52, 55, 64, 66, 76, 95, 141, 144

climate, 15, 16, 34, 41, 45, 48, 50, 75, 89, 105, 112 n. 5

as threat, 45–6, 48

climate change, 50–51, 136

coast, the, 9, 15, 17, 18, 20, 29 and n. 50, 60, 64, 65, 73, 74, 90

cocooning, 141, 143

colonialism, 28, 33, 35, 36, 37, 40, 45, 50, 55, 57, 62, 71, 88, 98, 105,

colonies

British, 91 and n. 18, 95, 97, 98, 107

French, 121

colonization, 9, 34, 40, 43–4, 46, 55, 64, 66, 72, 73

colonizers see also settlers, 9, 36, 46, 90, 103, 110

community, 4, 133, 142, 144, 148, 160, 162, 166, 173, 174

art in, 171, 175, 176

artistic, 116, 118

local, 24, 136, 182, 185, 186, 187

participation by, 152, 153, 155, 156, 159, 162, 165, 170, 171, 175, 176

Congested Districts Board, 19, 25

Connemara, 8–9, 15, 17, 19 n. 10, 28, 29, 30, 31–2

Connemara Industries Company, 20, 23, 26, 30

conquest, colonial, 61, 62, 71–6, 86

consumerism, 11, 91, 94, 144–5

Crawford, William, 91, 92

Cunha, Euclides da, 64 n. 14

Curzon, George N., 38, 46, 47

Denes, Agnes, 170

desert, 1, 6, 9, 34, 36–40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 98

climate of, 47, 48–9, 51

dangers of, 45–6, 47, 48–55

improvement of, 40–5, 50, 53–4, 55–6

as ocean, 34, 38, 46–7, 49

vocabulary for, 46–7, 48

desertification, 39, 52–3

destruction, 133, 138, 185, 199

aesthetics of, 133

Detroit, 138

Diggers, the, 158–9

Hyde Park Diggers, 158–9

dislocation, 10, 48

distance, 9, 41, 48, 68, 69, 80, 85, 103

overcoming of, 69 n. 19, 71, 82

shrinking of, 10, 81, 95

Dominions, the, 91, 108

dunes, 34, 37, 41, 47, 48, 51–2

earthworks, 182, 194

École des Beaux-Arts, 117

Ecological Parks Trust (EPT), 165, 166, 169

ecology, urban, 11, 153, 165, 166, 174, 176

economy, the

growth in, 23, 31

local, 22–3, 24

national, 66

rural, 29–30, 31

edgelands, 12, 143, 182

empire, 4, 35, 139

Brazilian, 60

British, 10, 88, 90, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 105, 109

advertising of, 91–3, 95

as garden, 105, 107

ideology of, 94 and n. 46, 95, 103

redemption of, 108–10

trade with, 90–1, 97

Portuguese, 60

Russian, 9, 34, 36, 40–1, 42–3, 44, 45, 46, 55, 56–7

Empire Marketing Board, 10, 90–5, 103, 108, 109, 110

posters, 10, 87, 88, 90, 92–7, 98, 100, 101–5, 107, 108–10

Bombay, 103, 104, 105

the family in, 88, 103, 104

Gibraltar, 103–5

Highways of Empire, 95–7, 100 n. 67, 108

as propaganda, 93–4,

in schools, 94

There’s all the health of the sea in fish, 107, 108, 109

emptiness, 1–2, 3, 7, 12–13, 24, 34, 45, 47, 56, 62, 86, 89–90, 97, 98, 113, 127, 133, 148, 149, 151–3, 175

archaeological, 12, 179–80, 198– 200

in art, 9–11, 113, 114, 120, 127

conquest of, 9, 48, 49–50, 61, 62, 63, 67, 68, 71–6, 82, 84, 85, 86, 90

constructions of, 3–4, 5–6, 9, 11, 33, 35, 37, 39, 45, 56, 57, 60–1, 85, 88, 97, 110, 139, 155, 156, 170

dangers of, 56–7, 98, 140, 142, 143

fear of, 7, 10, 40, 45, 47–8, 56, 88, 109–10, 140

filling of, 3–4, 6, 88, 97, 160, 165, 170, 185

instability of, 11, 54–5

as metaphor/symbol, 6, 7–8, 10, 45, 61, 139, 140, 146, 148, 149

multivalency of, 3, 5, 56, 143, 144–7

myth of, 4, 33–4, 36

temporal aspect of, 6–7, 131, 154

use of, 2, 8, 10, 33, 34, 37, 42–43, 44, 114, 118, 127, 131, 132, 134–5, 136–7, 138–9, 140, 145, 149, 154, 155, 158, 163, 174, 175, 177, 181, 190–3, 196–8

vocabulary of, 38–9, 42, 45, 46–47, 48, 153–4

enclosures, prehistoric, 12, 180–1, 182–7, 188, 191, 193, 199–200

uses of, 181, 182, 193, 196, 198

environment, 11, 34–5, 49, 56–7, 142, 143, 148, 152, 155, 163, 170, 174, 183 n. 12, 189

harsh, 9, 36, 45, 47

hostile, 98, 114, 134, 137, 139, 140, 141, 149

improvement of, 20, 34, 43, 53–4, 55

responses to, 33, 38–9, 45–6, 47–8

environmentalism, 11, 153, 158–9, 162, 165, 166, 170, 173, 174, 175, 176

Europe, 64, 65 and n. 17, 90, 98, 115, 153, 159

farms, 146, 147, 162

farming, 30, 44, 54, 181, 185

Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens (FCFCG), 1

fieldwork, 12, 180, 181, 191, 199

film, 5, 138, 189

apocalyptic, 133, 136, 141–2, 144–5

Finlay, T. A., Reverend, 27

fishing, 18, 19, 22, 26, 27 n. 42, 28, 29, 30, 107

Flannery, Tom, Father, 22–3, 26, 29, 30

flight see also aviation, 62–3, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 76, 78 n. 76, 80, 85

long-distance, 61, 62, 68, 85, 86

short-distance, 70 n. 45

food, 16, 17, 26, 47, 144, 145, 148, 176, 193

production of, 154, 155, 156 n. 14, 157, 159, 175, 176

Frank Rehn Galleries, 118, 122, 130

Free Form, 171, 175

Freud, Sigmund, 137–8

gardens, 29, 44, 158, 159, 162, 166, 182, 184, 185

community, 11, 151, 153, 162–5, 174, 175

empire as, 105, 107

gardening, 154, 155, 156 n. 14, 157, 158, 174, 175, 176

Garros, Roland, 68, 70 n. 45, 76

gaze, the, 5, 6

archaeological, 5, 12, 182, 191, 198, 200

colonial, 5, 28

imperial, 34, 35, 36, 42–3, 45, 72

geography, 2, 50, 56, 63, 88, 89, 94, 110

challenging, 36–40, 59

human, 2, 3

geologists, 50, 53, 64

geology, 41, 50

Gill, MacDonald, 92–3 and n. 34, 95–7, 108, 109, 110

Highways of Empire, 94, 97, 105, 108–9 and n. 87

Glasgow, 98, 187, 189, 199

Gobi Desert, 1

Goodrich, Lloyd, 118, 130

Greater London Council (GLC), 157, 160, 166, 168, 169, 174

Green Guerrillas, the, 162, 163

greening, 159, 174

GUZZ, 40, 41, 42, 44

Hackney Grove Gardens, 155 n. 13, 171–3, 175

heat, 37, 45, 46, 47, 48

henges, 12, 181, 187, 189, 194–8, 199

Henri, Robert, 115, 126

The Louvre, 120 n. 24

heroism, 62, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 85

heterotopia, 6 and n. 15

history, 5, 12, 123, 135, 142, 143, 147, 156, 175, 182

of aviation, 67, 69–70

Brazilian, 61 and n. 6, 84, 85

of emptiness, 3, 12, 13, 47, 138, 153

imperial, 5, 9, 35

maritime, 87, 90, 105

spatial, 2, 34

home, 11, 37, 95, 97, 98, 100, 110, 115–20, 138, 140, 141, 142, 145–6, 147, 149, 163

homeliness, 16, 97, 100, 137–8, 147

Home Rule (Irish), 22, 23 and note 29

Hopper, Edward, 10–11, 112–3, 115, 116–8, 120, 122, 126, 129–30

anxiety in, 10, 114, 127–9, 131–2

emptiness in, 113–4, 116, 118, 120, 128, 129, 131–2

figure and space in, 111, 114, 118, 123

letters, 112, 126

the Louvre in, 10, 114, 120–9

Paris drawings, 111, 115

Paris paintings, 10–11, 111–32

Paris postcards, 112, 122, 126–7

rejection of tradition, 114, 118, 126, 130–1

solitude in, 114, 115–20, 123, 128, 131, 132

works

Après-midi de juin, 124 n. 34

Le Bistro, 111 n. 1

Bridge in Paris, 124 n. 34

Les Etudiants de Paris, 127–9

Interior Courtyard at 48 rue de Lille, Paris, 116, 117

Les Lavoirs à Pont-Royal, 122 n. 30

Louvre and Boat Landing, 122 n. 30

The Louvre and the Seine, 122–4, 125

Louvre in a Thunderstorm, 124–6

Le Parc de Saint-Cloud, 129 n. 44

Le Pavillon de Flore, 124

Le Pont des Arts, 129 n. 44

The Pont Royal, 124 n. 34

Quai Voltaire booksellers, 126–7, 128, 129

Sketch of Paris courtyard at 48 rue de Lille, with nude, 118–20

Le soir bleu, 111 n. 1

Stairway at 48 rue de Lille, Paris, 115, 116

Street in Paris, 111 n. 1

Summer interior, 118 n. 22

A woman in the sun, 118 n. 22

Hugo, Victor, ‘L’Année terrible’, 128–9

Hungry Steppe, the, 41–2 and n. 46, 44–5, 54, 55

identity, 5, 8, 108, 146, 147

imagination, 4, 6, 16, 28, 56, 61, 86, 92, 155

geographical, 5, 35

spatial, 59, 61, 62, 63, 69 n. 38, 72, 84–5

imperialism, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 28, 33, 34, 35–6, 40–5, 46, 47, 49, 50, 54, 55–6, 57, 91, 93, 94, 95, 103, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110

Impressionism, 120, 124, 126

India, 43, 53, 91, 95, 98, 100 n. 67

infrastructure, 9, 20, 22, 27, 56, 60, 64, 75, 76, 85, 154, 168

Ireland, Western, 14, 18

home rule for, 22, 23 and note 29

landscape, 9, 19, 20, 26, 27, 30, 31

poverty in, 17, 19–20, 25 and n. 36, 26, 32

rural, 20, 21, 22, 25, 28, 29

Irish Sea, 23, 31

irrigation, 9, 34, 35, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 50, 54

isolation, 6, 7, 30, 63, 118, 120, 132, 140, 190

journey, the, see also travel, 38, 49, 88, 97 n. 56, 134, 141–2, 143, 147, 148

Kara Kum, 36, 37 n. 17 and 18, 38–9, 42, 43–4, 48, 51, 54

kelp, 19 and n. 11, 25 and n. 37, 29 and n. 50

Kizil Kum, 36–7 and n. 17, 38, 41, 42, 48, 50, 51–2

Krivoshein, A. V., 44

lakes, 15, 48–9, 50–1

land see landscape, space, terrain, territory

landscape, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 19, 21, 30, 41, 56, 59, 88, 89, 90, 98, 103, 107, 129, 134, 143, 149, 152, 153, 154, 165, 170, 171, 183, 184–5, 199, 200

barren, 9, 19, 20, 26, 29, 36–7, 38–9

empty, 34, 36, 37–8, 39, 40, 43, 44–5, 49–50, 53, 55, 110, 134, 138, 142, 147

narratives of, 17, 19, 20, 21–2, 23– 4, 34–6, 37, 38–9, 43, 44–7, 48–50, 55

legibility of, 45–50, 56

re-imagining of, 9, 10–11, 27, 34, 56–7

threatening, 9, 45–6, 47, 48, 49, 51–4, 55, 141

urban, 10, 11, 12, 21, 111, 113, 176, 181, 182, 187, 189, 195–6

Latin America, 64, 65 n. 17, 66, 72, 82 n. 82

Lefebvre, Henri, 2–3, 12, 34, 89

local authorities, 152, 157, 162, 171, 174

London, 11, 23, 97, 98, 100, 133, 134, 140, 152–3, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 166, 170, 171, 174

London County Council (LCC), 157

London Underground, 91, 92, 93 and n. 34

Louvre, the, 10, 114, 120–9, 131, 132

Lunan, Duncan, 187, 190

McCullough, Jamie, 163, 164

Main Administration of Land

Improvement and Management see GUZZ

Manchester, 20–1, 22, 23 n. 29, 25, 26, 27 n. 42, 28

Manchester Guardian, 21, 22, 28 and n. 46, 29, 30

maps see also cartography, 1, 2, 50, 72, 78–80, 82, 84, 95–7, 100 n. 67, 101, 105, 108 and n. 86, 109, 110, 174, 176, 185

emptiness on, 1, 2, 4, 10, 12, 86, 97

itinerarium, 82, 84

maritime, 88, 90, 95, 97, 105

Meanwhile Gardens, 163–5, 166, 171, 174

memorialization, 4, 12, 183, 191–3

Merv (oasis), 38, 42

Mexico, 64 n. 16, 65 n. 17

mirages, 9, 34, 48–9, 55

modernism, 10, 100, 114, 122, 126, 131, 132, 153

modernity, 5, 7–8, 63, 66, 98, 114, 120, 125

modernization, 7, 60, 66, 94 n. 46

Monet, Claude, Boulevard de Capucines, 113

Mongan, Honoria, 15, 32 n. 63

Mongan, Martin, 15, 24–6, 30, 31–2

Mongan’s Hotel, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 25, 27, 28, 30, 32

visitors’ book, 15–6, 17–9, 20, 21, 24, 27, 30, 31, 32

nation, 10, 60

and art, 121–2, 129–31

building of, 8, 9, 60, 65, 66, 70, 82, 84, 85

ideas of, 4, 60, 61, 62, 64 and n. 14, 75–6, 85, 86, 94

nationalism, 7, 8, 62, 92 n. 25, 120

nationhood, 6, 13, 92

nature, 9, 16, 17, 19, 20, 29, 30, 34, 35, 41, 45, 46, 54, 75, 76, 86, 123, 131, 165, 166–8, 169, 170

agency of, 48–9, 56

difficult, 4, 9, 10, 49–50, 54–5

empty, 9, 19, 45, 56, 75, 173

neoliberalism, 6, 8, 11, 137, 140, 147

Neolithic, the, 181, 194

sites, 12, 180–1, 185, 186, 191, 193–5, 198, 199

New York, 111 n. 1, 122, 123, 126, 129, 130, 133, 138, 162

nomads, 36, 37, 39–40, 41, 135, 142, 143, 146, 147, 149

nothingness see emptiness

ocean, 5, 7, 8, 10, 17, 20, 29, 30, 46–7, 49, 63, 69, 71–2, 78 n. 76, 87, 89, 95, 107, 109, 110

in art, 87–110

dangers of, 88, 90, 98, 103

emptiness of, 10, 34, 46–7, 88, 89–90, 97, 100, 103, 107, 109, 110

as health-giving, 107–8

as metaphor, 34, 38, 46–7, 49, 72

monsters in, 88, 97

ocean liners, 88, 100

Aquitania, 100, 102

interiors of, 100 and n. 67, 103

as safe haven, 10, 88, 98, 100, 103, 105, 110

Viceroy of India, 98, 100, 101

orientation, 68, 69 n. 38, 78, 80, 84

lack of, 9, 46, 47

Pacific Ocean, 1

Palais des Tuileries, 120 and n. 25, 121

Paris, 10

American art study in, 113–4, 116, 118, 121, 130

in Hopper’s paintings, 10, 11, 111–32

past, the, 2, 6, 7, 8, 12, 42, 47, 51, 71, 82, 137, 145, 156, 158, 179–80, 182, 187, 199, 200

intersection with present, 12, 121, 173, 182, 183, 189

overwriting of, 182, 183–4, 185, 189

Pavillon de Flore, 120–1, 123–4, 129

Pears, Charles, 92–3, 101, 103 and n. 72, 105, 108, 109, 110

Bombay, 101, 103–4

Gibraltar, 101, 103–5

Suez Canal, 101

There’s all the health of the sea in fish, 107–8

Pène du Bois, Guy, 131

Peninsular and Oriental Steam

Navigation Company (P&O), 98, 101

philanthropy, 19–21, 26–31, 32, 157

Pick, Frank, 91 and n. 22, 92, 93 and n. 34

Pissarro, Camille, 113, 123–4

The Pont Royal and the Pavillon de Flore, 123–4

planning, urban, 8, 151, 152, 155, 157–8, 166, 168, 176, 183 and n. 12, 184, 199

Plauchut, Edmond, 70–71

post-apocalypse, the, 11, 133, 135, 136, 140, 143, 145, 146, 149

representations of, 133, 137, 144

postcards, 100 n. 70, 122, 191

poverty, 17, 19, 20, 21, 26–31

pre-apocalypse, the, 148

prehistory, urban, 12, 179–80, 181–7, 189, 194, 199

press, the, 5, 9, 21–2, 23, 25, 26, 31, 55 n. 112, 61, 67, 68–9, 70–1, 72, 75, 76, 193

property, 40, 145, 146

psychogeography, 183–5, 199

raid, 69–71, 77, 79, 80, 85

railway, the, 30, 38, 39, 53, 64–5, 66, 73, 75 and n. 66, 78 n. 76, 81, 82, 84, 92, 93 n. 34, 185, 199

Trans-Caspian, 38, 41

realism, 126, 131

Recess, Co. Galway, 27, 30

Red Sands see Kizil Kum

Red Star Line, the, 105

remoteness see also landscape, remote, 7, 9, 16, 17, 27, 30, 31, 45, 63, 66

resources, 17, 19–20, 22, 25, 26–7, 30, 32, 33, 41, 45, 55, 144, 145, 147–8, 154, 170, 173

Rio de Janeiro, 61, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82

rivers, 15, 16, 42, 65, 158, 185

River Seine, the, 111, 114, 122, 123, 124 n. 34, 126

roads, 65, 69 n. 39, 78 n. 76, 82, 94, 142, 148, 182, 183, 185, 187, 193, 194, 196, 199

Romanov Canal, the, 41

Roscoe, Henry E., Sir, 23 and n. 29

Russia

improvement of desert, 40, 41, 42–3, 44, 45, 53–4, 56

responses to desert, 34, 38–9, 45–50, 54–5

scientists in desert, 38, 41, 45, 50–2, 53, 54, 55, 56

settlement of desert, 36, 37, 41, 44–5, 51, 54, 55

Sahara Desert, 1, 43

Saies, Enid, 118

salt flats, 34, 36–7, 49, 50, 51

Samarkand, 36, 38

sand see also desert, dunes, 34, 37, 38, 39, 46, 48, 49, 50–3, 56

São Paulo, 61, 65, 67, 68, 69 and n. 38, 70 n. 44, 72, 74, 75 n. 66, 76, 80, 81–82, 83

scientists, 38, 50, 51, 52, 53–4, 55, 56, 64

Scotland, 12, 181, 187, 194

Scott, Fred, 15, 20–1, 22, 23, 24, 26, 29, 31–2

sea see ocean

seascape, 7, 8, 10, 46, 90

security, 11, 39, 88, 105, 135, 137, 138, 141, 143, 147, 148, 149, 176

self-fashioning, 8, 9, 13, 22

Serra do Mar, 71, 74–5, 85, 86

settlement, 9, 34, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43–4, 51, 52, 54, 55, 60, 64, 86, 97, 143, 144, 146, 148

settlers, 9, 33, 37, 43, 44–5, 55, 56, 88, 95, 98, 101

shooting (as sport), 15, 16, 29, 30, 31

Sighthill stone circle, 181, 187–93, 196, 198, 199–200

Sloan, John, 129, 130

Solà-Morales, Ignasi de, 154

solitude, 10, 114, 115–20, 127, 131, 192

Southern, J. W., 22, 26, 29

Southern, May, 26

space, 1–13, 32, 45–50, 59, 134, 137, 143, 151

appropriation of, 40–41, 47, 134, 135, 143, 147–8, 153

narratives of, 6, 19, 23–4, 26, 35, 40–41, 75, 144, 146, 175

perception of, 60–1, 62, 64 and n. 14, 67, 72, 73 n. 56, 76–8, 84–6, 87, 89–90, 103, 134, 154, 170, 175–6, 180, 196

regeneration of, 27–31, 36, 40–44

re-imagining of, 11–12, 29, 32, 44–5, 56, 142, 144, 147, 149, 151, 155, 156, 160, 165, 166, 174, 180, 182

shrinking of, 81, 82, 95, 97 n. 56, 107, 109–10

and time, 5–6, 7, 34, 60, 81, 123, 154

urban, 7, 10, 11, 12, 21, 112, 113, 114, 129, 131–2, 134, 138–9, 140, 141–4, 152–3, 154, 157–9, 160, 165, 171, 174, 175, 184, 187, 196, 199, 200

spatial practice, 2, 5

spatial turn, 2, 3

state, the, 8, 20, 24, 26, 32, 34, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 53, 55, 56, 60, 86, 142, 143, 157

steppe, the, 34, 37, 46, 47, 52, 55

Stone, J. Harris, 28–9

stone circles, 182, 187, 188 n. 24, 193

stones, standing, 180, 182–3, 184, 185, 188–9, 190, 194, 195, 196, 198, 199

sublime, the, 39, 139

surveys, 7, 12, 17, 43–4, 45, 50, 51, 55, 56, 190

aerial, 185

hydrographical, 42–3

Survivors, 11, 134, 138, 140, 141, 144, 145, 147, 148, 149

Syr-Dar’ia river, 37, 41

Tallents, Stephen, 91–2, 95, 108

Tashkent, 36, 38

technology, 3, 6, 7, 17, 37, 59, 62, 63, 66, 67, 68, 70, 75, 81, 84, 98, 100, 158

temporality, 2, 7, 10, 131

terra incognita, 135, 137

terrain, 35, 37, 46, 48, 85, 154, 165

constructs of, 33–6, 39, 43, 45, 54–5, 56–7

empty, 17, 20, 26, 27, 33–4, 35–6, 38–40, 45, 46–8, 49–50, 55, 56–7, 85

hostile / rugged, 16, 29, 30, 31, 39, 45–6, 47–9, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55

improvement of, 20, 27, 34, 43–5, 52–4, 55, 56

leisure, 31

monotony of, 37, 38, 47

territory, 10, 49, 62, 78

appropriation of, 33, 40, 47, 49–50

empty, 61, 66, 85, 86

imperial, 90, 95

national, 9, 60, 65, 70, 73, 74, 84, 85, 86

settlement of, 36, 40, 44–5, 52, 53, 54, 55

tourism, 8, 9, 20, 22, 24, 27–31, 121, 171

sporting, 9, 16, 17, 19, 20, 24, 29

trade, 10, 23, 37, 87, 90–1, 94

Transcaspia, 37 n. 18, 44, 45, 49

travel, 7, 31–2, 62, 65, 70, 97, 103

accounts of, 10, 17, 21–2, 34, 38, 40, 46, 47–9, 55

traveller, 9, 15, 17, 18, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34, 47, 48, 50, 51, 56, 101, 110

Turkestan, 36–8, 40, 44, 52, 54, 55, 56

uncanny, the, 113, 137–8, 140, 147, 149

Ust Yurt plateau, 36, 37 n. 17 and n. 18, 39

utopia, 6 and n. 15, 135, 145, 146

vision, 40, 48, 49, 59, 69 n. 38, 86, 120, 135, 163, 165, 170, 174

imperial, 42, 43, 44, 56

visitors’ books, 16–7, 18

void see emptiness

The Walking Dead, 11, 134, 136, 138, 139, 140–1, 142–50

wastelands, 38, 42, 45, 50, 63, 72, 149, 154, 165

water, 15, 27, 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, 45 n. 65, 50, 51, 52, 55, 65, 88, 105, 107, 123

weather see climate

wilderness, 4, 28, 34, 39, 45, 46 n. 65, 142, 146

wildlife, 16, 19, 30, 39, 40

William Curtis Ecological Park, 165–8, 169–70, 171, 174, 175

zombies, 146–7

as metaphor for capitalism, 135 n. 8

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