Probed, pierced, and revered The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor Veronica della Dora University of Chicago Press, 2020. 416 pp.

Abstract

In her new book, The Mantle of the Earth, geographer Veronica della Dora explains how Earth9s mantle has provided a capacious metaphor for the terrain that sustains human life and the manner in which it is imagined and investigated. This is a metaphor that thrives on the lifting of veils and the piercing of interiors, as well as the "warp and weft" of a web of life and the weaving together of social and physical phenomena into narratives that convey the rich texture of this environment.