ABSTRACT
Elisee Reclus (1830-1905)1 attended Ritter's lectures in Berlin in 1849-50, but his concepts and writing advanced far beyond what he learned from the master. After being expelled from France as an anarchist in 1851 he travelled and worked in England, in the United States, and in South America, befare returning to France in 1856. The two volumes of La Terre, which revealed the strong influence of Ritter, were written at this time, though they were not published until 1868-9, and the English translation was done in 1872. Reclus was again condemned to penal servitude as an anarchist at the barricades in 1871, but this sentence was later converted to exile. The nineteen volumes of his Nouvelle Geographie Universelle were published between 1876 and 1894. In his last years he lectured in Edinburgh and Brussels where he had an important infiuence on tbe development of geograpby in Belgium. The six volumes of L' homme et la Terre appeared in 1905, tbe year of his death.
