Elisee Reclus: Historian of Nature ~ Biography of French Geographer & Anarchist ~by Gary S. Dunbar 1978 ~ Geographical History ~ Geography

Title: Elisee Reclus: Historian of Nature

Author: Gary S. Dunbar

Description: Boards in maroon cloth. Light wear. Interior is clean and unmarked. Nine illustrations. Includes a 29-page bibliography. Index. Dust jacket shows age and light wear and has some general mottled light discoloration; in an archival mylar sleeve. 193 pages.

Biography of the French geographer and anarchist, Elisee Reclus (1830-1905), whose masterwork was the 19-volume geographical encylopedia, Nouvelle Geographie universelle, was credited with ''the conversion of France to geography.'' He was also a leading anarchist figure whose scientific, literary, and political influence percolated in his associations with men like George Meredith, Peter Kropotkin, Patrick Geddes, and Mikhail Bakunin. Although Reclus's personal life and politcal ideas are not slighted in this first English book-length biography, it concentrates on his career as a geographical writer and as one who was concerned with the vast interconnections between man and nature.

The author, Gary Seamans Dunbar (1931-2015), Professor Emeritus of UCLA's Department of Geography, taught at the University of Virginia 1957-1967 and UCLA 1967-1988.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Archon Books [an imprint of the Shoe String Press]
Place: [Hamden, Connecticut]
Year: 1978

ISBN: 0208017461

Keywords: biography, geographers, geography, history, France,