Bøker i Geographers-serien

Brings together essays on figures in time geography and regional theory, on GIS, on regional, cultural and political geography, on scriptural geography, historical geography and methodology, and on African exploration. These essays engage with the individual's contribution to geography, their works and their lives.

A collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. It includes essays on Dick Chorley, the influential geomorphologist, and Charles P Daly, long-serving president of the American Geographical Society.

Presents a collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. This work describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. It includes a bibliography and a chronology.

This volume is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography or geographical thought. Each chapter describes the geographer's education, life and work, discusses their influence, and includes a bibliography of their works.

This annual collection of studies covers individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and parts of the world, including famous names and those less known: explorers, independent thinkers and scholars.

This is a collection of studies on individuals who have made contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. In this work subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and it includes the life and work of explorers, independent thinkers, and scholars.

One of an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographic thought. The 17th volume in the series, this study describes the geographers' education, life and work, and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas.

An annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography or geographical thought. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life, work and discusses their influence and spread of academic work.

An annual collection of studies on individuals who have made contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work, discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas and includes a bibliography of their work.

Women are the exclusive focus of the 38th volume of Geographers. For the first time in the serial''s history, the entire volume is devoted to important work of distinguished female geographers, amply demonstrating how these scholars'' professional lives enrich the discipline''s history. It also illustrates how reading and writing their biographies not only expands our understanding of geography''s past, but points to its more diverse future.The collection includes biographies of Doreen Massey, winner of geography''s ''Nobel prize'', the prix Vautrin-Lud, for her remarkable contribution to geography and neighbouring disciplines which discovered the importance of space through her work; Helen Wallis, geographer and historian of cartography who for many years had charge of the UK''s foremost collection of maps; Alice Saunier-Seïté, who applied her geographical training and formidable energy to teaching and educational reform in France; Isabel Margarida André, who lived through a turbulent political period in her native Portugal and meticulously investigated its effect on women and political geography; and the many women who helped to create the UK''s first Geography department - the University of Oxford''s, School of Geography - including Fanny Herbertson, Nora MacMunn, Marjorie Sweeting, Mary Marshall, Barbara Kennedy and other women geographers who are memorialised in a group article.