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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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1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List
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The Control of Nature
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
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Annals of the Former World
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
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Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
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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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Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography
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Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
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Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
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How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
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Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale
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You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
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Planet of Slums
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
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The New Geography of Jobs
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
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The Production of Space
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
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Material World: A Global Family Portrait
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Mirror
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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
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The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
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A History of the World in 12 Maps
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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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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
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The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned
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Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
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Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
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If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People
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Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth
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Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It
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The Limits to Capital
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Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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Kon-Tiki
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Salt: A World History
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Around the World in Eighty Days
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Notes from a Small Island
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
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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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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The World Without Us
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American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
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Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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The Image of the City
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The Great Kapok Tree
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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Grand Canyon
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
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Blue Highways
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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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