Encountering Adamastor. Volume 1 : South Africa's founding geographers in time and place / W.S. Barnard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnard, W. S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographers--Biography.

Geographers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (91 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Sun Press, [2016]

Summary:

The volume of W.S. Barnard is a first in a series of life-histories of the founding geographers in South Africa published by the Centre of Geographical Analysis at Stellenbosch University. Life-histories are reported in five ways: the commendation lauds the winner of an award; the obituary by necessity speaks well of the dead; the brief entry in a dictionary or encyclopedia is highly stylized and constrained by editorial guidelines; in the autobiography the author tells his own story in his own way; and, finally, the biography comes in a range of formats and structures. At the one extreme is the complete life-history, written by a specialist following the historiographical method and based on the critical assessment of primary sources; at the other is the belletristic overview: descriptive, anecdotal, facile and artful.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

1 - Telling Geographers' Lives

2 - The South AfricanContext: Politics, Science and Geography

3 - Passarge, the First Professional

4 - Schwarz of the Kalahari

5 - Serton, Human Geography and Apartheid

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ( pages 85-91).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-928357-28-8