Geographical Journeys: Geographers Tell Their Stories [Paperback]

1.?From the Back End of Nowhere? 2.?A Reluctant Convert? 3. Landforms and Me: Shaping a Career in Geomorphology? 4. A Geographer From, Off And Working On The Rustbelt? 5. From Pacific Shores? 6.?Forging a Path Through Life and the Changing Landscape of Geography? 7.?The Moth And The Flame: A Journey Towards Self-Annihilation? 8. A Transatlantic Adventure? 9. A Quantitative Geographical Odyssey? 10. Very Slowly and Then All at Once? 11. Becoming A Geographer In The Shadow Of Geographys Quantitative Revolution? 12. The Production of Geography (and a Geographer)? 13. My Journey To and Through Marxist Geography? 14. A Long Way Home: My Journey as a Geographer? 15. Becoming a Critical Climate Geographer: What Might That Mean, and What Can It Do?? 16. Meanders of an Uneasy Geographer? 17. Doing It the Hard Way? 18. Landscapes, Luck and an Inquisitive? 20. I became a geographer-in-the-making at the age of six? 21. A Pirate and a Scientist? 22. The Geographer That Latin America Made Me? 23. A Geographer at Heart? 24. No Cursing, No Crying, No Cookies:? The Interplay of History and Geomorphology? 25. Becoming a Geographer? 26. Becoming Undisciplined? 27. Time and Contingency: A Journey Through Geography? 28. From Essex to the Edgelands of Geography? 29. Reflections on Geography, the Long 1960s and the?Trahison des clercs

This book provides concise insights from a diverse range of leading scholars reflecting on how they became geographers. In these ways, the book offers insightful contributions on how geographies and the history of the field get made; and for those considering embarking on a career in geography, just what to expect.

'This book provides a set of fascinating insights into the diverse routes in and through an academic career. It is also a source of encouragement for those who start late or change direction on the way, as well as demonstrating the energy and enthusiasm of practitioners of geogl“