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

The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet (Haunted Hydrology)
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Córki chmur. O kobietach z Sahary Zachodniej
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
The Lost Cities of El Norte: Coronado's Quest, the Unconquered West, and the Birth of American Indian Resistance
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
The Whisper on the Night Wind: The True History of a Wilderness Legend
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
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
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainThe Lost City of Z by David GrannHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradDeath on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Row Your Boat
122 books — 29 voters

Monarchs and Milkweed by Anurag AgrawalWild Migrations by Matthew J. KauffmanThe Homing Instinct by Bernd HeinrichFour Wings and a Prayer by Sue HalpernA World on the Wing by Scott Weidensaul
Animal Migration
40 books — 8 voters
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna AardemaMufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John SteptoeAnansi the Spider by Gerald McDermottBringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna AardemaSleep Well, Siba and Saba by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
Picture Books on Africa
364 books — 49 voters

The Glorious Adventure by Richard HalliburtonBubba and Squirt's Mayan Adventure by Sherry  EllisAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneBubba and Squirt’s Legend of the Lost Pearls by Sherry  EllisPaddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling
Books that Teach Geography
8 books — 2 voters
1984 by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondIn the Midst of Plenty by Marybeth ShinnA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnIn the Midst of Plenty by Marybeth Shinn
The Best Social Studies Library List
244 books — 203 voters


Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born; and where he was born didn’t choose him.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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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