About the Author

Yi-Fu Tuan is the author of more than two dozen critically acclaimed books, including Space and Place, Topophilia, Escapism, Coming Home to China, and Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets. His previous books published by the University of Wisconsin Press are The Good Life, Morality and Imagination, and the autobiography Who Am I? Tuan is the J. K. Wright and Vilas Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and has been honored with the Cullum Medal of the American Geographical Society, the Laureat d'Honneur of the International Geographical Union, and the Charles Homer Haskins Lectureship of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Reviews

Yi-Fu Tuan is one of the most remarkable and creative forces in the intellectual life of our time. - Simon Schama, Columbia University, author of Rough Crossings ""In all his work, Yi-Fu Tuan has led us on journeys that have extended our imagination by expanding our spirit. Here he has done so again, but perhaps never so importantly as in Human Goodness. Unfailingly engaging and profound."" - Steven Grosby, Clemson University, author of Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction ""Tuan has produced a series of profiles that confirm his core assertion: humanity in the aggregate may be dispiriting, but in certain human lives a goodness prevails that has the power to instruct, inspire, and confound."" - William Howarth, Princeton University, author of Walking with Thoreau