It stands to reason that writings on \'sense of place\' focus on where people live. This monograph, however, respectfully turns its back on peopled environments in order to consider marginal lands-where the living ain\'t easy and the inhabitants few. Geography matters, indeed, limits, molds, colors human life, determines sensibilities. Following a heuristic thread laid down by social anthropologist Victor Turner, the authors tap into the concept of liminality to scout out a path through landscape, geographic essence, liminaires, aesthetics, the sacred, hierophanticy, back country as wellspring, liminoids, and our counterfeit self. The authors source two case studies in their own backyards: Lockwood\'s Northwest Coast of Canada and Quillien\'s Four Corners of the American Southwest.