Description
An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer’s education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. Each study includes a select bibliography and brief chronology. The work includes a general index and a cumulative index of geographers listed in volumes published to date. Geographers covered in this volume are: Thomas Baines, George Brown Barbour, Lucien Febvre, Sir Cyril Fox, Augustus Charles Gregory, Francis Thomas Gregory, John Walter Gregory, Cotton Mather, Borivoje Milojevc, Mungo Park, Jos Salazar Ilarregui, Chandra Pal Singh, William Smith, and Giuseppe Dalla Vedova.
