Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 29

Description

A collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. It provides key insight into the shaping of this discipline and of its practitioners in modern context.

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

While seeking out a particular entry is the most obvious way to use these reference volumes, one of the first rewards of working through a complete volume is encountering the editors' introduction. It would be quite understandable, given the labour that must be involved in preparing the essays for print, if the volumes were introduced by a very brief preface. Instead, each begins with a substantial and stimulating prolegomenon. These add significant value and help to make the volumes much more than the sum of their biographical parts...The essays that follow...are all superbly executed. -- Diarmid A. Finnegan, Queen's University, Belfast, UK * Journal of Historical Geography *