Bret Wallach

An Itinerant Geographer

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An Itinerant Geographer is a continuing series of geographical improvisations by Bret Wallach, a geographer retired from the University of Oklahoma.   The title "An Itinerant Geographer" is borrowed from "The Itinerant Geographer," a meticulous newsletter many years ago by the geography department at UC Berkeley.  For accompanying photographs, see greatmirror.com.  Substack has visually attractive transcripts.

Author

Bret Wallach

Category

Society

Podcast website

www.buzzsprout.com

Latest episode

May 11, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 7 (Zimbabwe, Part 3 of 4) 14.03.2019

The transcript of this episode is available at Buzzsprout.com/1970784. For photos of the places discussed, see greatmirror.com

Episode 8 (Zimbabwe, Part 4 of 4) 13.03.2019

The transcript of this episode is available at Buzzsprout.com/1970784. For photos of the places discussed, see greatmirror.com

Episode 9 (Glasgow) 12.03.2019

The transcript of this episode is available at Buzzsprout.com/1970784. For photos of the places discussed, see greatmirror.com

Episode 10 (Transylvania) 11.03.2019

The transcript of this episode is available at Buzzsprout.com/1970784. For photos of the places discussed, see greatmirror.com

Episode 11 (India, Part 1 of 3) 10.03.2019
Episode 12 (India, Part 2 of 3) 09.03.2019

The transcript of this episode is available at Buzzsprout.com/1970784. For photos of the places discussed, see greatmirror.com

Episode 13 (India, Part 3 of 3) 08.03.2019

The transcript of this episode is available at Buzzsprout.com/1970784. For photos of the places discussed, see greatmirror.com

Cuzco and Around (Peru) 08.03.2019

For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/197078 For photos, see greatmirror.com

Pohnpei, Micronesia 06.03.2019

For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/197078 For photos, see greatmirror.com

Tel Aviv and Jerusalem 05.03.2019

For photos, see greatmirror.com For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784

The Telltale Southern Plains (1997) 08.11.2018

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 visit to Rabindranath Tagore's Shilaidaha (Bangladesh,1996) 08.11.2018

A reading of pages 30-38 from Losing Asia , published by Johns Hopkins in 1996.  For photos, see greatmirror.com.

A Week in Trinidad (1995) 07.11.2018

This paper was read at the annual meeting in 1995 of the Association of American Geographers.  For photos, see greatmirror.com

Maine's St. John Valley in the 1970s (1991) 06.11.2018

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

A Homestead in the Canadian Rockies (1988) 05.11.2018

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.

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