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The reality that characterises our lives is, undoubtedly, a vast repository of knowledge. In this sense, this work allows the reader to observe our ability to create and/or evoke images from the reading and interpretation of different textual genres: literary and scientific. To analyse the man present in the world and active in its historical construction process, which is reflected in geographical knowledge, we take as a reference the sertanejo (backlands dweller) from the literary work 'Os Sertões' (Revolt in the Backlands), by Euclides da Cunha, and we recognise in the didactic texts that constitute the Telecurso 2000 Distance Learning Programme (Secondary Education, Geography subject, a sertanejo who contrasts and, simultaneously, 'completes' the mosaic of images, information and knowledge identified in the first human type considered. Seeking to understand geographical knowledge from a subjective perspective, we find images that, originating from a process that alternates between formal and informal education, reveal differences and similarities, but ensure the presence of different worldviews and express the dynamism of our lives.