biography
pronunciation:
[twahn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Geographer, born in Tients'in, NE China. He emigrated to England in 1946, and to the USA in 1951. He studied at Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley, before becoming a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1983. One of the newer generation of geographers concerned with broader philosophical issues of the subject, his books include Topophilia (1974) and Morality and Imagination: Paradoxes of Progress (1989). |
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