Hayden Lorimer is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow, UK.Charles W.J. Withers is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• Introduction Hayden Lorimer and Charles W. J. Withers \ Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (1879-1966) Hugh Clout and Avril Maddrell \ Orlando Ribeiro (1911-1997) Suzanne Daveau \ Aimé Vincent Perpillou (1902-1976) Hugh Clout \ Two Vidalians: Antoine Vacher (1873-1920) and René Musset (1881-1977) Hugh Clout \ Jean Dresch (1905-1994) Hugh Clout \ Andre Cholley (1886-1968) Hugh Clout \ Daniel Faucher (1882-1970) Hugh Clout \ Kenneth Cumberland (1913-2011) Eric Pawson \ Bibliography \ Index

While seeking out a particular entry is the most obvious way to use these reference volumes, one of the first rewards of working through a complete volume is encountering the editors’ introduction. It would be quite understandable, given the labour that must be involved in preparing the essays for print, if the volumes were introduced by a very brief preface. Instead, each begins with a substantial and stimulatingprolegomenon. These add significant value and help to make the volumes much more than the sum of their biographical parts...The essays that follow...are all superbly executed.