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Pure geography

Johannes Gabriel Granö ; edited by Olavi Granö and Anssi Paasi ; translated by Malcolm Hicks

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Other Title

Puhdas maantiede

Reine Geographie : eine methodologische Studie beleuchtet mit Beispielen aus Finnland und Estland

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"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia" -- T.p. verso

"Pure geography was originally published as Reine Geographie by the Geographical Society of Finland in Acta georaphica, vol. 2, 1929, and as Puhdas maantiede by Werner Söderström, Porvoo, 1930"--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. [175]-185

Includes index

Translation of: Puhdas maantiede

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Johannes Gabriel Grano's career as a geographer spanned the first half of the 20th century. In the course of his explorations in Central Asia (where his father had served as Lutheran pastor to Siberia's Finnish colony) Grano initially specialized in geomorphology. It was not long, however, before theoretical themes began to emerge in Grano's work. In the 1920s, he began to develop an original methodology of landscape geography, based on the idea that the real object of geographical research should be the environment as perceived by the senses and regions constructed on the basis of these perceptions. It was from this starting point that he created a doctrine he called "pure geography".

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