November 6, 1998
'Escapism'
Moving from the earth to the body, from heaven to hell, Yi-Fu Tuan's new book, Escapism (Johns Hopkins University Press; 245 pages; $28), tackles the human impulse toward escape, fantasy, transformation.
"A human being is an animal who is congenitally indisposed to accept reality as it is," writes the author, a professor emeritus of geography at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Escapism is human, he
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