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Source: Richard Marston, 785-532-6727, rmarston@k-state.edu

Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008

VISITING SCHOLAR IN GEOGRAPHY TO PRESENT PUBLIC LECTURE AT K-STATE

MANHATTAN -- David Zurick, a visiting geography scholar at Kansas State University, will present "Landscape and Imagination in the Himalaya" at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, in the Big 12 Room at the K-State Student Union.

The lecture, sponsored by the K-State department of geography and the K-State chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon, the international honor society in geography, is free and open to the public.

Zurick is Foundation Professor of Geography at Eastern Kentucky University, where he teaches courses on introduction to geography, world travel and tourism, cultural geography, environment and conservation, political geography, regional geography of Asia, cultural ecology, field studies, senior seminar, world regional geography, and research methods.

He has extensive field experience as a researcher in Nepal, Yunnan and Tibet in China, and Zanzkar and Ladakh in India. This summer, he conducted funded research on lanscape change and life in Nepal.

Zurick co-authored the "Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya," published in 2006 by the University Press of Kentucky, which won the National Outdoor Book Award. He also is the author of "Himalaya: Life on the Edge of the World," published by Johns Hopkins Press in 1999, and "Errant Journeys: Adventure Travel in a Modern Age," published by the University of Texas Press 1995.

In addition, Zurick is an accomplished photographer and has lectured around the world.