An Itinerant Geographer

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By: Bret Wallach

An Itinerant Geographer is a continuing series of geographical essays by Bret Wallach, professor emeritus of geography at the University of Oklahoma.  Greatmirror.com has accompanying photographs.  Substack has visually attractive transcripts."The Itinerant Geographer" was the title of a meticulous newsletter formerly published by the Geography Department at UC Berkeley.  It was a labor of love compiled and written by Wallach's academic advisor, the late James J. Parsons.

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Malawi
03/13/2026

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California's Highway 49
12/22/2025

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Samoa
08/02/2025

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Panama
04/27/2025

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Nagaland, India
12/16/2024

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Bolivia
11/20/2024

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Maya Monuments of Yucatan, Mexico
05/09/2024

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Virginia City, Nevada (Part 1 of 3)
10/11/2023

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Virginia City, Nevada (Part 2 of 3)
10/10/2023

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Virginia City, Nevada (Part 3 of 3)
10/09/2023

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Archaeological Peru (Part 1 of 2)
09/14/2023

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Archaeological Peru (Part 2 of 2)
09/13/2023

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Buddhist Monuments Near the Lower Krishna River, India (Part 1 of 3)
08/21/2023

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Buddhist Monuments Near the Lower Krishna River, India (Part 2 of 3)
08/20/2023

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Buddhist Monuments Near the Lower Krishna River, India (Part 3 of 3)
08/19/2023

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Hindu Temples of the Cauvery Delta (India)
04/01/2023

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Laughter in a War Zone (Jaffna, Sri Lanka)
08/26/2022

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Zimbabwe Revisited
08/25/2021

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Episode 1 (Australia, Part 1 of 4)
03/20/2019

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Episode 2 (Australia, Part 2 of 4)
03/19/2019

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Episode 3 (Australia, Part 3 of 4)
03/18/2019

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Episode 4 (Australia, Part 4 of 4)
03/17/2019

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Episode 5 (Zimbabwe, Part 1 of 4)
03/16/2019

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Episode 6 (Zimbabwe, Part 2 of 4)
03/15/2019

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Episode 7 (Zimbabwe, Part 3 of 4)
03/14/2019

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Episode 8 (Zimbabwe, Part 4 of 4)
03/13/2019

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Episode 9 (Glasgow)
03/12/2019

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Episode 10 (Transylvania)
03/11/2019

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Episode 11 (India, Part 1 of 3)
03/10/2019

Episode 12 (India, Part 2 of 3)
03/09/2019

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Episode 13 (India, Part 3 of 3)
03/08/2019

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Cuzco and Around (Peru)
03/08/2019

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Pohnpei, Micronesia
03/06/2019

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Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
03/05/2019

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When Worlds Collide (Isola, 2014)
11/11/2018

This is a rewrite of a speech read in 2014 at the Delhi meeting of the Indian Society of Landscape Architects (ISOLA).   

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The Future of Rice Production in Sri Lanka (2005)
11/11/2018

I had a 6-month Fulbright to Peradeniya University, a few miles from Kandy, Sri Lanka.  One day I was talking for some forgotten reason with the editor of The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities. He said he needed something to fill the 2005 issue and asked if I had anything he might use.  I gave him this.   It appeared under the title "The Paddy Lands of the Kandy District."  The editor made no changes except replacing  the pronoun you  with the pronoun one.  "This is a humanities journal," he explained. 

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The Telltale Southern Plains (1997)
11/08/2018

This sketch was published as Chapter 6 of Many Wests, a collection of essays edited by David M. Wrobel and Michael C. Steiner and published by the University Press of Kansas in 1997.  

A Week in Trinidad (1995)
11/07/2018

This paper was read at the annual meeting in 1995 of the Association of American Geographers. 

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Maine's St. John Valley in the 1970s (1991)
11/06/2018

This is the first chapter of At Odds With Progress (University of Arizona Press, 1991).   The published chapter title was "Potato Snows."

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A Homestead in the Canadian Rockies (1988)
11/05/2018

This episode was originally published in the Fall, 1988, issue of Focus, a journal of the American Geographical Society.  

Clara Dodgson Millner, here called Granny, died in 2004 at age 101.