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

Is a River Alive?
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
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How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
Mystery in Rocky Mountain National Park (National Park Mystery #1)
Puerto Rico: A National History
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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
Slave Catching In The Indian Ocean by Philip Howard ColombA Maverick Traveller by Mary Jane WalkerThe Land That Never Was by Vasily PasetskyThe Rise and Fall of Nader Shah by Willem M. FloorWorld-Building and the Early Modern Imagination by Allison B. Kavey
Speaking In Foams
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A Passage to India by E.M. ForsterHamlet, Prince of Denmark by William ShakespeareMurder in Mesopotamia by Agatha ChristieJamaica Inn by Daphne du MaurierCongo by Michael Crichton
Countries
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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
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born; and where he was born didn’t choose him.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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