Bloomsbury Geographers: v. 29: Biobibliographical Studies: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 29

Review 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 Published On: 2013-09-01 Product Description This is an annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Volume twenty-nine of "Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies" has as its subject matter seven essays covering British and French regionalists, one of the world's leading cultural geographers, a quantitative geographer turned historical geographer and student of geopolitics, a pioneering medical geographer and a leading theoretician of geography's multiple engagements with the urban experience. In their different ways and with reference to Australia, Britain, France, Sweden and the United States of America, all were products of - and direct influences upon - the emergence, strength and thematic diversity of geography in the twentieth century. "Geographers 29" thus provides key insight into the shaping of a discipline and of its practitioners in modern context. "Geographers Biobibliographical Studies (GBS)" is the world-leading annual serial international publication devoted to the critical biographical assessment of scholars' contributions to geography and geographical knowledge. About the Author Charles W.J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh. Hayden Lorimer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow.