Person
Élisée Reclus
French geographer, writer and anarchist
Jacques Élisée Reclus (March 15, 1830 – July 4, 1905) is a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist.
He produces his nineteen-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes ("Universal Geography"), over a period of nearly twenty years (1875–1894)
In 1892 he is awarded the Gold Medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work, despite having been banished from France because of his political activism.