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
Córki chmur. O kobietach z Sahary Zachodniej
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

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

Tim  Marshall
THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on maps: they were lines that did not exist in reality and created some of the most artificial borders the world has seen. An attempt is now being made to redraw them in blood.
Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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