Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 28

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The Geographers Bio-bibliographical Series Volume 28 includes essays on Dick Chorley, the influential geomorphologist, Charles P. Daly, long-serving president of the American Geographical Society, Marion Newbigin, one of the leading women geographers of the early twentieth century and Peter Heyleyn, early modern humanist, historian and geographical author.

Charles W.J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Hayden Lorimer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Title Mention in The Times Higer Education, September 2009 "Lorimer and Withers offer biographies of ten geographers that focus on the link between state politics and geography. A group of geographers from Europe, the US, and Japan profile physical geographers in Britain and the Netherlands; a geographical publicist from late nineteenth-century America; a French population and regional geographer; a Japanese political geographer; a geographical editor and pioneering woman geographer from early twentieth-century Britain; and a Scots-born explorer of early nineteenth-century West Africa. They include Marion Newbigin, Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier, Gudmund Hatt, Peter Heylyn, Tibor Mendol, and Koji Iizuka." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.