Geography

Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, lit. "earth description") is a field of science dedicated to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of the Earth. ...more

This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong [and Why It Matters]
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend
España: A Brief History of Spain
Korea: A New History of South and North
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
Puerto Rico: A National History
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Paddle-to-the-Sea
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Me On The Map

Guy Davenport
Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and recognized and guessed and supposed, all the skills of the imagination. Language itself is a continuously imaginative act. Rational discourse outside our familiar territory of Greek logic sounds to our ears like the wildest imagination. The Dogon, a people of West Africa, will tell you that a white fox named Ogo frequently weaves himself a hat of string bean hulls, puts it on his im ...more
Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

Mark Twain
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Mark Twain

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