Abstract
Many geographers have been asked this question, and I perhaps more than most because I am a special kind of human geographer, one who has published books with such titles as Dominance and Affection and Passing Strange and Wonderful, which do not sound like those that a geography professor will assign. To the question, then, I have three answers, each suited to a different level of the questioner's sophistication and seriousness. At a party, when people are more interested in not spilling Pepsi on their coat than anything truly intellectual, my reply goes like this. " I traveled a lot as a child and as a young person, and there is nothing like travel-especially foreign travel-to stimulate one's interest in geography." Well, everyone accepts that. The conversation stops there and then, or degenerates into vague recallings of " my last summer in Maine."
Recommended Citation
Tuan, Yi-Fu
(1995)
"Editorial Comments: Why Are You A Geographer?,"
The Geographical Bulletin: Vol. 37:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/thegeographicalbulletin/vol37/iss1/1