Pengarang: Innes M. Keighren

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. They were works of both artistry and industry-pr …

Ellen Semple’s ‘Influences of Geographic Environment’ (1911) – a treatise on what would later be called environmental determinism – coincided with the emergence of geography as an independent academi …