I will be away from the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress until October 1st, 2012....
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....at the Etna Volcanic Observatory, Sicily....Summer, 2012
..... field geographers can speak with authority about the clarifying effects on the mind of direct physical danger in the real world and there exists a terrible antagonism between field geographers and armchair academics. Not only do those in their armchairs think and write junk, obfuscation, obscurantism, and endlessly convoluted self-referral to their literature in windowless libraries, they do not care about the human condition.”
--William Bunge,
Geography is a Field Subject
Area, 1983
