false 96292 7 Davis consistently does what your junior high teacher probably didn't; he makes geography amusing and riveting. From early concepts of whether the world was a disk floating in water (Thales) or pear-shaped (Columbus), Davis explains earthquakes, rain forests, Atlantis and whether there are canaries on the Canary Islands. In short, he covers the scientific, physical, and political history of the Earth and does his level best to raise our collective geographic IQ while entertaining us. 1169602 1992 Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned (Don't Know Much About...(Paperback)) total:145|5:0|4:1|3:0|2:1|1:0| 145 514 251 13 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 13:41:55 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 13:37:07 -0700 2009
The book sprinkles excerpts from people in history. My favorite is by Neil Amrstrong the man on the moon:

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