Geographers. Volume 5 [electronic resource] : biobibliographical studies / T.W. Freeman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freeman, Thomas Walter.

Series:

Geographers

Geographers : biobibliographical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographers--Bio-bibliography.

Geographers.

Geography--History.

Geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 140 p.)

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : Mansell, 1981.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Lev Semenovich Berg 1876-1950; Lorin Blodget 1823-1901; Robert Capot-Rey 1897-1977; George Babcock Cressey 1896-1963; William Morris Davis 1850-1934; Johann Albert Fabricius 1668-1736; Johann Michael Franz 1700-1761; Henricus Glareanus 1488-1563; Andrei Alexandrovich Grigoryev 1883-1968; Arnold Henry Guyot 1807-1884; George Jobberns 1895-1974; Stanisław Lencewicz 1899-1944; Thomas Livingstone Mitchell 1792-1855; Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller 1825-1896; Hilda Ormsby 1877-1973; Carl Ritter 1779-1859

Notes:

"On behalf of the Working Group on the History of Geographical Thought of the International Geographical Union and the Interrnational Union of the History and Philosophy of Science."

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474230766

1474230768

1-4742-3077-6

OCLC:

933565795