Quote of the day
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Carl O. Sauer
Born: December 24, 1889
Died: July 18, 1975 (aged 85)
Bio: Carl Ortwin Sauer was an American geographer. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957.
Known for:
- The Early Spanish Main (1966)
- Agricultural origins and dispersals
- Colima of New Spain in the sixteenth century (1948)
- Northern mists (1968)