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

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The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet (Haunted Hydrology)
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Mystery in Rocky Mountain National Park (National Park Mystery #1)
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
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
How to Lie with Maps
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
578 books — 168 voters
The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-HitchingLost Islands by Henry StommelPhantom Islands of the Atlantic by Donald S. JohnsonNo Longer on the Map by Raymond H. RamsayThe Lost Land of Lemuria by Sumathi Ramaswamy
Phantom Islands
24 books — 1 voter

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,528 books — 1,958 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

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
101 books — 2 voters


Linda Leaming
“ Bhutan does seem a bit unreal at times. Hardly anybody in the U.S. knows where it is. I have friends who still think the entire country is a figment of my imagination. When I was getting ready to move there, and I told people I was going to work in Bhutan, they'd inevitably ask, "Where's Butane?" It is near Africa," I'd answer, to throw them off the trail. "It's where all the disposable lighters come from." They'd nod in understanding. ...more ”
― Linda Leaming, Married to Bhutan

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