Comments on Geographic Travels: Interview with Harm de Blij

thanks.

2010-02-10T08:22:08.604-06:00

thanks.

Thanks for this short Q&A. Ideas like those Dr...

2010-02-10T01:52:39.705-06:00

Thanks for this short Q&A. Ideas like those Dr. de Blij expresses in it definitely need to be repeated until they stick.

Exuberance, Both de Blij's "Why Geogra...

2010-02-08T08:37:43.196-06:00

Exuberance,
Both de Blij's "Why Geography Matters" and "Power of Place" would be similar to Colinvaux's work. I am familiar with Colinvaux and I realize to match his "text book to popular"-style is hard to break.

Some felt the first part of WGM was too simplistic. So if you feel you have a good base in geography then PoP will interest you more.

There is a awesome book "Why Big Fierce Anima...

2010-02-08T08:01:18.446-06:00

There is a awesome book "Why Big Fierce Animals are Rare" written by the ecologist Paul A. Colinvaux. He plucked out all best insights and stories from his ecology text book and wrapped them up for the popular reading audience. Is there a similar book for geography?

Not clear that there are many natural borders between the social sciences. Sociologists, geographers, anthropologists... they all live on the great plane of social networks.