Geographers

Hayden Lorimer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK. Charles W.J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

While seeking out a particular entry is the most obvious way to use these reference volumes, one of the first rewards of working through a complete volume is encountering the editors' introduction. It would be quite understandable, given the labour that must be involved in preparing the essays for print, if the volumes were introduced by a very brief preface. Instead, each begins with a substantial and stimulatingprolegomenon. These add significant value and help to make the volumes much more than the sum of their biographical parts...The essays that follow...are all superbly executed.

• The Contributors \ Introduction - Hayden Lorimer and Charles W.J. Withers \ Alan Grant Ogilvie - Charles W.J. Withers \  Pierre George - Hugh Clout \ Philipe Pinchemel - Hugh Clout \ Leslie Wilson Hepple - Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, Peter Haggett and Klaus Dodds \ Andrew Learmonth - Richard W. Lawton and W.T. Rees Pryce \ Dennis E. Cosgrove - Michael J. Heffernan \ Allan Pred - Michael J. Watts