Key Thinkers on Space and Place

The second edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place was published today. For some reason I thought that doing a second edition would be less work than the original. I failed to appreciate that the 52 original chapters would all have to revised and re-edited as if they were new entries as well as the 14 new chapters (the length of an ordinary edited book) shepparded through the process. It comes in at 510 pages (a quarter of million words). At 27 quid/52 dollars it's a bargain (honestly)!

Extra reading

Yesterday I received the proofs for the second edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place, which I’ve edited with Phil Hubbard.  Great to get, but now I’ve 500, double column, pages to proof and index by mid-July, which is going to mess up other plans.  Apparently the first edition has just become a bestseller, which in the academic Geography world means it’s sold more copies than there are pages in the book and a lot less copies than there are words.