Hayden Lorimer and Charles W.J. Withers (Eds), Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Vol. 28. London, Continuum, 2009, Pp. xii + 176, ￡90 hardcover

摘要

I like a good biography, especially if it is about a geographer. There are ten new ones in the latest volume of Geographers Biobibliographical Studies. My favourites were those that melded their subjects' lives and work and set both in context. Not all of them worked, but those that did moved seamlessly between the details of an individual life lived, and its larger political context. That context could be as different as the English civil war and restoration in seventeenth-century England, the rise of Nazism in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, and the emergence of East European state communism after the Second World War.