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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:41:30 -0500
From: HelenJane Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: Peter Gould
Sender: HelenJane Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>


This is part of a email sent to me this morning.  I have resent portions of
it with the author's permission.
HelenJane Armstrong, Map & Imagery Library, University of Florida


This morning I was informed by several emails that Peter Gould has passed
away. Peter Gould was Professor of Geography at The Pennsylvania State
University. If you have not heard already, Peter Gould died after a
prolonged
battle with cancer.  As one of the emailers said "Barely into the year 2000,

Geography has lost one of its most creative, unorthodox, and lively minds of

the twentieth century..."

Peter Gould received his Ph.D. from Northwestern in 1960, and became one of
the pioneers of human geography during the second half of 20th century.
Among Peter's widely read works, read well beyond the disciplinary
boundaries of geography, was his popular and very readable book "Mental
Maps."
Peter Gould and Rodney White, "Mental Maps," Harmondsworth, UK: Markam,
1974.

Peter's love for the discipline of geography was very clearly seen in his
book
 Peter R. Gould, "Geographers At Work." UK: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.
In that book he gave his personal review of the discipline, from the
perspective of the people who created the body of knowledge of the
discipline, from its beginnings through the quantitative revolution and into
the early 1970s. As with many of Peter's contributions, this book was
intended for an audience much more broad than the academic geography
community.
Many knew of him from "Abler, Ronald F.; Adams, John S.; and Gould, Peter R.

Spatial Organization: The Geographer's View Of The World." Englewood Cliffs,

NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971.



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