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

New Releases Tagged "Geography"

This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History
This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Mystery in Rocky Mountain National Park (National Park Mystery #1)
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
Córki chmur. O kobietach z Sahary Zachodniej
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
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 Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrieKrakatoa by Simon WinchesterThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonFoundation by Peter AckroydNathaniel's Nutmeg by Giles Milton
Histories of Countries
85 books — 24 voters

1984 by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenAnimal Farm by George Orwell
The Best Social Studies Library List
241 books — 181 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

Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainForty-Ninth by Boris PronskyThe Help by Kathryn Stockett
Americana Fiction
63 books — 53 voters
The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Edward Bulwer-LyttonLeila or The Siege of Granada and Calderon the Courtier by Edward Bulwer-LyttonBajazet by Jean RacineDialogues Concerning Natural Religion / The Natural History o... by David HumeThe Life of Robert, Lord Clive by John  Malcolm
Books Read by Queen Victoria
17 books — 1 voter


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

Terry Pratchett
Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography. ...more
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

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