Scholar, author David Hooson, 82
Posted: Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 11:49 amBERKELEY – David Hooson, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and a scholar of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, national identities and the history of geographic ideas, died on May 16 at the age of 82.
He drowned during his regular swim at Shell Beach in Tomales Bay, near his home in Marin County’s Inverness Park, a small unincorporated community adjacent to Point Reyes National Seashore.
His work is said to have made a significant impact on geography within the Soviet Union, and his publications — including the books “A New Soviet Heartland?” (1964) and “The Soviet Union: A Systematic Regional Geography” (1966) — reportedly spurred passionate discussion in the Soviet Union. … Read full obituary
