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. Geographers covered in this volume are: Thomas Baines, George Brown Barbour, Lucien Febvre, Sir Cyril Fox, Augustus Charles Gregory, Francis Thomas Gregory, John Walter Gregory, Cotton Mather, Borivoje Milojevc, Mungo Park, Jos Salazar Ilarregui, Chandra Pal Singh, William Smith, and Giuseppe Dalla Vedova.

This is a part of a collection, published annually, 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.;The scope of the book is international, both in terms of personalities and contributors, and focuses on both famous and lesser-known geographers.

An annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work, discusses his or her influence and includes a bibliography of works and a chronology.

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.

An annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life, work, their influence and spread of academic ideas. A bibliography of their works and chronology is also incorporated. The work includes a listed general index, and cumulative index of geographers in the volumes published to date.

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 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.

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.

Updated and revised to include theoretical and other developments, bibliographical additions, new photographs and illustrations, and expanded name and subject indexes, the fourth edition of All Possible Worlds: A History of Geographical Ideas is the most complete and comprehensive book of its kind. The text also features a layout and readability that make the material easy to navigate and understand.
The book investigates the ways in which the subject of geography has been recognized, perceived, and evaluated, from its early acknowledgment in ancient Greece to its disciplined form in today's world of shared ideas and mass communication. Strong continuities knit the Classical Period to the Age of Exploration, then carry students on through Varenius to Humboldt and Ritter--revealing the emergence of "the new geography" of the Modern Period.
The history of American geography--developed in seven of the twenty chapters--is strongly emphasized pursuant to the formal origins of geography in late nineteenth-century Germany, Darwin's theory of evolution, and the Great Surveys of the American West. This treatment is enhanced by chapters concerning parallel histories of geography in Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia (including the USSR and CIS), Canada, Sweden, and Japan-countries that at first contributed to and later borrowed from the body of US geographical thought.
All Possible Worlds: A History of Geographical Ideas, Fourth Edition, is ideal for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in the history and philosophy of classical, medieval, and modern geographical thought.