Humbolt, Granö and Geo-poetics of the Altai

The Altai region of Siberia has held magnetic appeal for explorers and scientists down the centuries. Two of these explorers, Alexander von Humboldt(1769−1859) and Johannes Gabriel Granö (1882−1956), were especially gifted in yielding both geo-scientific and geo-poetic accounts of their surveys, Gra...

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Main Author: Anne Buttimer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Geographical Society of Finland 2010-11-01
Series:Fennia: International Journal of Geography
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Online Access:http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/fennia/article/view/2838/3455