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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 122,225 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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4.04 avg rating — 467,622 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 77,502 ratings
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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3.69 avg rating — 102,742 ratings
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Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
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4.22 avg rating — 4,938 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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4.21 avg rating — 431,318 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 75,387 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 453,541 ratings
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The Control of Nature
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4.25 avg rating — 5,047 ratings
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1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List
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3.88 avg rating — 44,115 ratings
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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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4.17 avg rating — 4,251 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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3.84 avg rating — 39,070 ratings
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Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World
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4.05 avg rating — 2,010 ratings
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Around the World in Eighty Days
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3.95 avg rating — 289,044 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 78,486 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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3.89 avg rating — 57,237 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 97,264 ratings
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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4.19 avg rating — 19,660 ratings
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
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3.61 avg rating — 15,322 ratings
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Lost and Found (The Boy, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 10,696 ratings
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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3.81 avg rating — 14,277 ratings
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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
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4.21 avg rating — 8,715 ratings
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London: The Biography
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3.96 avg rating — 6,099 ratings
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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3.86 avg rating — 8,305 ratings
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Paddle-to-the-Sea
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4.30 avg rating — 7,032 ratings
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
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3.69 avg rating — 4,473 ratings
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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4.46 avg rating — 24,392 ratings
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
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3.90 avg rating — 2,776 ratings
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The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
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3.80 avg rating — 4,362 ratings
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How I Learned Geography (Caldecott Honor Book)
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4.04 avg rating — 2,850 ratings
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How the States Got Their Shapes
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3.54 avg rating — 3,986 ratings
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
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4.04 avg rating — 4,647 ratings
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
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3.76 avg rating — 5,320 ratings
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Planet of Slums
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,436 ratings
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
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3.93 avg rating — 64,199 ratings
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
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4.24 avg rating — 7,769 ratings
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The Scrambled States of America
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4.20 avg rating — 2,161 ratings
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How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
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4.27 avg rating — 3,145 ratings
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Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
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Seabird
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Maps
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You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,405 ratings
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Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography
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4.03 avg rating — 4,471 ratings
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Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
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4.04 avg rating — 4,137 ratings
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
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3.99 avg rating — 2,677 ratings
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Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
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4.18 avg rating — 4,231 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
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The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History
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Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth
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4.12 avg rating — 6,896 ratings
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A History of the World in 12 Maps
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3.76 avg rating — 1,817 ratings
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Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
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3.65 avg rating — 6,470 ratings
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The Production of Space
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4.16 avg rating — 2,269 ratings
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Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
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3.82 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
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Material World
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4.52 avg rating — 1,684 ratings
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The New Geography of Jobs
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4.03 avg rating — 2,781 ratings
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Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 940 ratings
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
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3.60 avg rating — 2,863 ratings
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Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
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3.96 avg rating — 2,813 ratings
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In a Sunburned Country
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The Atlas of Middle-Earth
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Kon-Tiki
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World
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4.38 avg rating — 2,531 ratings
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The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name
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4.07 avg rating — 1,378 ratings
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Notes from a Small Island
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Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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Tree in the Trail: A Cottonwood Tree Witnesses American History on the Santa Fe Trail
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
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If You Lived Here: Houses of the World – A Picture Book About Cultural Diversity and Architecture for Children (Ages 6-9)
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
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Mirror
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Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale
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How to Lie with Maps
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Pagoo
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist
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3.76 avg rating — 1,241 ratings
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The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
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Minn of the Mississippi
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
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The World Without Us
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Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4)
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
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4.34 avg rating — 11,800 ratings
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
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4.20 avg rating — 15,257 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 881,390 ratings
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The Histories
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4.01 avg rating — 56,777 ratings
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Orientalism
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4.14 avg rating — 30,866 ratings
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Africa: A Biography of the Continent
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Journey to the River Sea
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
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Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
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In Patagonia
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Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (Anchor Books)
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Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
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Removed The Death and Life of the Great Lakes for only being shelved for geography 9 times.
I kind of expect both of these to make these criteria at some point.