Geographers Biobibliographical Studies provides international, interdisciplinary and indispensable research into geographers’ lives and works. This latest volume has essays on four Brazilians, two Germans, a British woman and a Dutch diplomat-glaciologist and illustrates how each helped shape – as they were shaped by – the different institutions in which they worked. As institutions of all kinds – universities, schools, scientific societies – are today under threat, these essays, and GBS’s insistent intellectual enquiries, could hardly be more topical.