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13 - Time, Place and Circumstance

from Part II - Essays: Inspiring Fieldwork

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2020

By
Tim Burt
Edited by
Tim Burt  and
Des Thompson
Tim Burt
Affiliation:
Durham University
Des Thompson
Affiliation:
Scottish Natural Heritage
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Summary

What sort of scientist am I? Peter Gould (1985, p. 320) encouraged us to recognise the particular historical situation in which we find ourselves, ‘to acknowledge the trap of one’s own time and place and circumstance’. For me, being born on the Mendips and brought up in the south-western English county of Somerset provided the time and place; circumstance came from a charismatic schoolteacher, Jim Hanwell. Once I fell under Jim’s spell, I never wanted to study anything but geography.

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Curious about Nature
A Passion for Fieldwork
 , pp. 165 - 168
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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De la Beche, H.T. (1846). On the Formation of the Rocks of South Wales and South Western England. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Volume 1.1. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London.Google Scholar
British Geological Survey (2017). Geological structure of the Mendips. See www.bgs.ac.uk/mendips/geology/Geological_Structure.htm (accessed 2017).Google Scholar
Gould, P. (1985). The Geographer at Work. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.Google Scholar

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