front 1 Alexander von Humboldt | back 1 He was the first to suggest the theory that the landmasses of Latin America and Africa had been at one time connected. |
front 2 Carl Ritter | back 2 He was especially famous for a nineteen-volume work that explained how earth’s physical structure influenced human activities. He firmly believed that the physical nature of the earth affected how history unfolded. |
front 3 Élisée Reclus | back 3 Reclus came up with the term social geography and wrote a 19-volume work entitled The Earth and Its Inhabitants. |
front 4 Evelyn Stokes | back 4 a New Zealand geographer who worked for the inclusion of marginalized groups, especially women and the Maori people of New Zealand. |
front 5 Walter Christaller | back 5 a German, produced groundbreaking work on urban space, studying how towns and cities interact with each other. |
front 6 Doreen Massey | back 6 English geographer Massey worked with ideas on how poverty and wealth were determined by place, and she also specialized in Marxist and feminist geographies. |