Publisher's Synopsis
Describes how the lives and work of the following people have influenced the author's thinking - William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft (education), Alexander Herzen (politics), Peter Kropotkin (economics), Martin Buber (society), William Richard Lethaby and Walter Segal (architecture) and Patrick Geddes and Paul Goodman (planning). The author has been a quiet influence in many environmental and social fields.