Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 27

by Charles W.J. Withers, Hayden Lorimer

The twenty-seventh volume of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies includes essays covering the geographical work and lasting significance of eight individuals between the late sixteenth century and the early twentieth century. The essays cover early modern geography, cartography and astronomy, geography's connections with late Renaissance humanism and religious politics, 'armchair geography' and textual enquiry in African geography, medical mapping and Siberian travel, human ecology in the Vidalian tradition, radical political geography in twentieth-century USA, American agricultural geography and cultural-historical geography in Japan and in India. In these essays, GBS continues to provide detailed insight into the richness of geography's intellectual traditions and the diversity of geographers' lives.

176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 21, 2008

About the author

Professor Charles W. J. Withers FBA, FRSE, FAcSS, FRSGS is professor of historical geography at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
He has been the Geographer Royal for Scotland since 2015, and held the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh from 1994 to 2019.