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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 829 times as geography)
avg rating 4.19 — 116,095 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as geography)
avg rating 4.04 — 456,073 ratings — published 1997
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as geography)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,615 ratings — published 2021
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as geography)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,193 ratings — published 2011
The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as geography)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,165 ratings — published 2012
Paddle-to-the-Sea (Library Binding)
by (shelved 131 times as geography)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,903 ratings — published 1941
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as geography)
avg rating 3.54 — 4,126 ratings — published 2014
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as geography)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,207 ratings — published 1995
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as geography)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,445 ratings — published 2012
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as geography)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,591 ratings — published 2004
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as geography)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,855 ratings — published 2009
Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as geography)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,730 ratings — published 2018
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as geography)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,117 ratings — published 2023
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as geography)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,110 ratings — published 2001
Me On The Map (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as geography)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,060 ratings — published 1996
How to Lie with Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as geography)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,184 ratings — published 1991
Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as geography)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,224 ratings — published 2016
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as geography)
avg rating 4.23 — 21,023 ratings — published 2019
How I Learned Geography (Caldecott Honor Book)
by (shelved 65 times as geography)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,842 ratings — published 2008
How the States Got Their Shapes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as geography)
avg rating 3.54 — 3,925 ratings — published 2008
Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as geography)
avg rating 4.58 — 2,072 ratings — published 2012
Minn of the Mississippi (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as geography)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,468 ratings — published 1951
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as geography)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,578 ratings — published 1993
The Scrambled States of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as geography)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,144 ratings — published 1998
Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as geography)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,134 ratings — published 1992
Tree in the Trail: A Cottonwood Tree Witnesses American History on the Santa Fe Trail for Kids (Ages 10-12)
by (shelved 57 times as geography)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,477 ratings — published 1942
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as geography)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,452 ratings — published 2016
Seabird (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as geography)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,368 ratings — published 1948
An Atlas of Extinct Countries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as geography)
avg rating 3.58 — 3,323 ratings — published 2020
A History of the World in 12 Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as geography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,791 ratings — published 2012
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as geography)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,153 ratings — published 1977
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as geography)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,916 ratings — published 2019
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as geography)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,653 ratings — published 2008
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as geography)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,864 ratings — published 1961
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as geography)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,130 ratings — published 2019
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as geography)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,100 ratings — published 1994
Elementary Geography: Full Illustrations & Study Guides! (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as geography)
avg rating 4.05 — 170 ratings — published 1925
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as geography)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,981 ratings — published 2020
Maps and Globes: A Guide for Kids (Ages 4-8) About How to Find Places - From Mountains and Jungles to Oceans and Deserts (Reading Rainbow Book)
by (shelved 43 times as geography)
avg rating 4.02 — 547 ratings — published 1985
Geography from A to Z: A Picture Glossary – Learning Earth's Vocabulary and Maps for Young Children (Ages 4-8) (Trophy Picture Books (Paperback))
by (shelved 43 times as geography)
avg rating 4.10 — 166 ratings — published 1988
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as geography)
avg rating 4.17 — 48,427 ratings — published 2015
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as geography)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,777 ratings — published 2011
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as geography)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,633 ratings — published
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as geography)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,258 ratings — published 2010
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as geography)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,145 ratings — published 2006
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as geography)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,349 ratings — published 2006
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as geography)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,034 ratings — published 2015
Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as geography)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,396 ratings — published 2012
Mapping Penny's World (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as geography)
avg rating 3.93 — 589 ratings — published 2000
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as geography)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,309 ratings — published 2016
“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”
― America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”
― America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“A narrow-minded man can lead one to devalue others, and in the end, to desperately dangerous hates of outsiders, ranging in expression from discrimination against minorities to world conflagrations,' Tolman wrote. The solution? Create broader cognitive maps in the mind that encompass bigger geographical boundaries and a wider social scope, embracing those we might consider others, and in this way encourage empathy and understanding.”
― The Genius of Birds
― The Genius of Birds












