ABSTRACT
The discipline of geography as we know it in the academy today began as a mapping project-to get to know and record the features of the earth’s surface. Explorers and navigators brought back new maps and amazing stories from their journeys into unknown lands-journeys often undertaken with an imperialist, mercantile or scientific project in mind. In this book, we examine another sort of journey, equally rich in intriguing experiences and encounters, and undertaken by each one of us. It is a journey through time and space, from birth to death: a journey of personal discovery, during which periods of calm weather are interrupted by more tumultuous passages. It is the geographies of such passages, or life crises (Kimball 1960:vii), that are the focus of this book.
