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

This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Córki chmur. O kobietach z Sahary Zachodniej
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
Korea: A New History of South and North
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
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
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Me On The Map
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
362 books — 49 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


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David  Mitchell
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. ...more
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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