Belloc and the Pyrenees

While in the excellent second hand bookshop at Blickling Hall in Norfolk earlier I spotted this book in the Vintage section.

It was written by Hilaire Belloc. Belloc was the GA President in 1915 - quite a while back. You can read his entry by searching the blog.

It's a chunky book all about the Pyrenees which helps with Belloc's credentials. It was published in 1923.

Cross-channel Geographers

A find while researching Stanley Henry Beaver.

It explores collaboration across the channel.

This developed from the work of Paul Vidal de la Blanche.

He conceived the idea of genre de vie, which is the belief that the lifestyle of a particular region reflects the economic, social, ideological and psychological identities imprinted on the landscape.

The influence of Halford Mackinder and Andrew John Herbertson at Oxford was highly important in the training of teachers and university lecturers. The ‘new geography’ of Vidal and his disciples became widely known in Britain and served as a model for the first half of the century since French was far more readily accessible to a British audience than the German geographical classics.

Former GA Presidents who are referenced include:

H. J. Fleure - a French speaker and early visitor

Emrys Bowen

Stanley Henry Beaver

Percy Roxby

John Linton Myres

Bill Mead

Sidney Wooldridge

David Leslie Linton

There is also reference to Monkhouse and Darby.

There is also reference to the work of Hilda Ormsby - the French expert at the LSE

Source: https://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/2966

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