Edmund William Gilbert (1900–1973) was a British social geographer. He was Professor of Geography at the
University of Oxford, from 1953 to 1967.[1]
and Fellow of
Hertford College, Oxford. He defined
geography in terms of the recognition of the characters of
regions[2]
^Alan R. H. Baker, Geography and History: Bridging the Divide (2003), p. 164.
^William Wyckoff, Understanding Western Places: The Historical Geographers's View, in Gary J. Hausladen (editor), Western Places, American Myths: How We Think about the West (2006), p. 22.
^By Mark Polelle, Raising Cartographic Consciousness (1999), pp. 3-4.