In Memoriam "To Restore One's Faith In The Subject We Profess": The Geography of David R. Stoddart (1937-2014)
A careful yet boisterous author, his writing on geographical thought was ever a reminder of just how truly important the traditions are of exploration, discovery, data-acquisition, fieldwork, and of how useful, nay, "essential" are the resources of archives and botanical gardens and long-t...
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| Published in | Geographical review Vol. 105; no. 4; pp. 612 - 619 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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New York
Taylor & Francis
01.10.2015
Blackwell Publishing Ltd American Geographical Society Taylor & Francis Ltd |
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| Summary: | A careful yet boisterous author, his writing on geographical thought was ever a reminder of just how truly important the traditions are of exploration, discovery, data-acquisition, fieldwork, and of how useful, nay, "essential" are the resources of archives and botanical gardens and long-term ecological field sites. Were the sun ever to set on the British Empire, no reasonable soul could express surprise were David Stoddart there, upright and chipper on a last secluded beach, toes sieving the sand, regarding the shore break and assessing the coral heads, whilst the sun descends to the horizon, no doubt yielding - in its parting gasp - that most elusive prize of a sea watcher: the green flash. |
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| Bibliography: | istex:1AB25DD8B11320FF3A49E6649C2FFADAF521C5C0 ark:/67375/WNG-XS5MVVGF-P ArticleID:GERE12086 I thank the Stoddart family, David J. Larson, Thom Eley and Cherie Northon, Wayne Bernhardson, Jack Wright, Tom Howard, Robert Raburn, Frank Murphy, Francis Smith and, in Berkeley, Nathan Sayre and Michael Watts for their recollections. After this was drafted, a number of memorial notes appeared in British sources, which are cited at the end of this note. |
| ISSN: | 0016-7428 1931-0846 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2015.12086.x |