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

The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet (Haunted Hydrology)
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Córki chmur. O kobietach z Sahary Zachodniej
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
The Lost Cities of El Norte: Coronado's Quest, the Unconquered West, and the Birth of American Indian Resistance
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
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
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Me On The Map
The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Edward Bulwer-LyttonLeila or The Siege of Granada and Calderon the Courtier by Edward Bulwer-LyttonBajazet by Jean RacineDialogues Concerning Natural Religion / The Natural History o... by David HumeThe Life of Robert, Lord Clive by John  Malcolm
Books Read by Queen Victoria
17 books — 1 voter
A Child's History of the World by V.M. HillyerGeorge Muller by Janet BengeThe Great Wall Of China by Leonard Everett FisherMissionary Stories with the Millers by Mildred A. MartinPeoples of the World by Roma Trundle
1st Grade History & Geography
13 books — 2 voters

DEMOCRACY IN DEFICIT by James M. BuchananThe Man in the Dog Park by Cathy SmallRebellious Follower by Andrew B. KennedyWhy Nations Fail by Daron AcemoğluPainting Imperialism and Nationalism Red by Stephen Velychenko
Political Perspective Shifters
42 books — 14 voters
Corações Sujos by MORAIS FERNANDOOrientalism by Edward W. SaidNihonjin by Oscar Nakasato
Ser amarelo no Brasil
3 books — 2 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildThe Fate of Africa by Martin MeredithThe Looting Machine by Tom BurgisThe State of Africa by Martin Meredith
Understanding Africa
43 books — 19 voters
The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrieKrakatoa by Simon WinchesterThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonFoundation by Peter AckroydNathaniel's Nutmeg by Giles Milton
Histories of Countries
86 books — 25 voters


Michael Ondaatje
“ All I ever wanted was a world without maps. ”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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

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