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Responds to author's commentaries on the article about Carl Sauer's geography. Criticisms on Sauer's evolutionary view of culture; Distinction between physiography and physical geography; Description of the morphology of landscape.

Comments on an article by the author, Michael Solot, discussing the geographer, Carl Sauer's geography. Consideration of Solot's paper as an amalgam of pseudohistory and confused analysis; Discussion of the philosophy and problems in human geography.

Comments on the article "Structural Marxism and Human Geography," by James Duncan and David Ley, about the Marxist work of geographers. Errors of omission in the Portrayal Marxist traditions; Neglect of the history of structural Marxism that leads the historical context of the Marxist geographical items; Failure of the authors in specifying the philosophical bases of various traditions in Marxist social science.

Presents a first-person narrative of a geographer in the United States on the nature of a dissenting geographer. Developments in radical geography; Emergence of radical geography from social crisis; Tradition of dissent; Social history of geography; Surprising suddenness of the emergence of radical geography; Founding group of not only young geographers but a number of seasoned geographers as well.

Presents a first-person narrative of a geographer in the United States the status of the discipline of geography in the 1970s. Disillusionment and disenchantment as demonstrated by various forms of social protest; Emphasis on the interrelations between theoretical and quantitative human geography; Plight of the individual in the planned society; Predominantly neoclassical character of the theorizing to date in urban and economic geography.