Élisée Reclus

✶March 15, 1830

†July 4, 1905

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About their life

Jacques Élisée Reclus was a French geographer, writer, anarchist, and a vegetarian. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes , over a period of nearly 20 years (1875–1894). In 1892 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work, despite having been banished from France because of his political activism.

French geographer and writer (1830–1905)

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