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To pass on a good earth : the life and work of Carl O. Sauer / Michael Williams ; with David Lowenthal and William M. Denevan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Michael, 1935- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sauer, Carl Ortwin, 1889-1975.
- Sauer, Carl Ortwin.
- Geographers--United States--Biography.
- Geographers.
- Geography.
- Human geography.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 252 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- 1 Warrenton of the Middle Border, 1889-1908 5
- 2 Graduate Studies and New Places, 1908-1915 17
- 3 Michigan, 1916-1923 37
- 4 Berkeley: An Insider, 1923-1941 52
- 5 Larger Horizons of Place and Time: Mexico and the Southwest, 1923-1935 75
- 6 The Frontiers of Knowledge 90
- 7 "The Great God West of the Sierras" 101
- 8 The Farthest Corridors of Human Time 115
- 9 "The Heart of Human Geography" 129
- 10 "Born in Another Age" 142
- 11 "Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth" 154
- 12 A Productive Retirement, 1957-1975 165.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hiram G. Haney Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0813935660
- 9780813935669
- OCLC:
- 857753970
- Publisher Number:
- 99959324768
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