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Informationen zum Autor Patrick H. Armstrong is Adjunct Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. Patrick H. Armstrong taught Geography and Ecology at the University of Western Australia. He has written extensively on the life and work of Charles Darwin. Brought up in the university city of Cambridge, among Armstrong's earliest recollections was seeing Darwin's granddaughter painting pictures of the River Cam. Geoffrey Martin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus (Geography)at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, and Archivist of the Association of American Geographers. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Patrick H. Armstrong and Geoffrey J. Martin Samuel John Kenneth Baker 1907-1991 Richard Alan Baker, University of Leeds Robert Percy Beckinsale 1908-1998 Richard J. Chorley, University of Cambridge Fernand Braudel 1902-1985 Paul Claval, University of Paris-Sorbonne Jan Otto Marius Broek 1904-1974 John W. Webb, University of Minnesota and the State University of New York, Albany James Edward Church 1869-1959 Evelyne Stitt Pickett, Independent Scholar Thomas Walter Freeman 1908-1988 Anne Buttimer, University College Dublin Antonio Garcia Cubas 1832-1912 Hector Mendoza Vargas, National University of Mexico George Grey 1812-1898 Marion Hercock, University of Western Australia Armin Kohl Lobeck 1886-1958 Fred S. Grandinetti , Independent Scholar Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay 1846-1888 J.M. Powell, University of Western Australia Catherine Helen Spence 1825-1910 Sarah Lumley, University of Western Australia Christiaan Van Paassen 1917-1996 Gerard Hoekveld, University of Utrecht John Kirtland Wright 1891-1969 William A. Koelsch, Clark University Index...
