Title: Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Eiszeit in der Nordwestlichen
Mongolei und Einigen Ihrer Südsibirischen Grenzgebirge. Geomorphologische Studien
aus den Jahren 1905-1909.
[Contributions to the Knowledge of the Ice Age in
North-Western Mongolia and its Southern Border of the Siberian Mountains.
Geomorphological Studies in the Years 1905 to 1909.]
Helsingfors (Helsinki): J. Simelii Arfvingars Boktryckeri-Aktiebolag, 1910.
Large 8vo. iv, 230 pages. With 9 fold-out colour maps, 19 photographic
plates and 18 in-text illustrations. Text is in German.
Akademische Abhandlung. Fennia, International Journal of Geography, volume 28 no. 5
Stamp to title page, lacking covers, otherwise in very good condition,
internally exceptionally bright and clean, with solid spine.
This scholarly dissertation comprises the first four years of the learned
geographer's scientific investigation of geomorphology, archaeology and populations of
North-Western Mongolia and Russia. A primary resource, for which the author
is best known, highlighting the Russian and Chinese Altai Mountains, Sailugem,
Ulan-Daba, Altain-nuru, Chan Chuchei, Chara-Kere, and the Changai mountains.
Nine remarkably vivid maps detail Granö's routes.
Johannes Gabriel Granö (1882-1956) was the founder of modern geography in
Estonia, geographer, explorer, and chancellor of Turku University.
Granö's career as a geographer spanned the first half of the 20th century.
In the course of his explorations in Central Asia (where his father had served as
Lutheran pastor to Siberia's Finnish colony), Grano initially specialized in
geomorphology. It was not long, however, before theoretical themes began to emerge
in Grano's work. In the 1920s, he began to develop an original methodology of
landscape geography, based on the idea that the real object of geographical research
should be the environment as perceived by the senses and regions constructed on
the basis of these perceptions. It was from this starting point that he created a
doctrine he called "pure geography".
From 1902-1917 Granö investigated population, archaeology and geomorphology of Asia, especially Mongolia and Altai. From 1919-1923 he worked as professor of geography
at the University of Tartu. While working in Tartu, Granö laid foundations to regional studies in Estonia, studies of landscape regions and urban areas. He devised the scheme
for dividing Estonia into regions and compiled instructions for investigating towns and parishes. He worked as professor as well as chancellor at the University of Turku,
where he wrote his famous Reine Geographie (1929) (Pure Geography), in which he summed up his geographical theories.
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