Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 33

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Volume 33 of Geographers Biobibliographical Studies adds significantly to the corpus of scholarship on geographys multiple histories and biographies with six essays on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography in the twentieth century. This volume focuses on European geographers, including essays on individuals from Britain, France and Hungary. These are individuals who have made important and distinctive contributions to a diverse range of fields, including cartography, physical geography, oceanography and urban theory. As with previous volumes, these biographical essays demonstrate the importance of geographers' lives in terms of the lived experience of geography in practise.

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Hayden Lorimer is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK. Charles W. J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK.