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Geography Books
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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 838 times as geography)
avg rating 4.19 — 117,737 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as geography)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,118 ratings — published 1997
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as geography)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,071 ratings — published 2021
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as geography)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,216 ratings — published 2011
The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as geography)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,206 ratings — published 2012
Paddle-to-the-Sea (Library Binding)
by (shelved 130 times as geography)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,928 ratings — published 1941
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as geography)
avg rating 3.53 — 4,138 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 — 76,523 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 — 4,449 ratings — published 2012
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as geography)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,870 ratings — published 2009
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as geography)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,787 ratings — published 2004
Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as geography)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,797 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 — 7,312 ratings — published 2023
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as geography)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,143 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 76 times as geography)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,192 ratings — published 1991
Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as geography)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,297 ratings — published 2016
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as geography)
avg rating 4.23 — 21,203 ratings — published 2019
How I Learned Geography (Caldecott Honor Book)
by (shelved 65 times as geography)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,843 ratings — published 2008
How the States Got Their Shapes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as geography)
avg rating 3.54 — 3,941 ratings — published 2008
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as geography)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,586 ratings — published 1993
Minn of the Mississippi (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as geography)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,476 ratings — published 1951
Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as geography)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,137 ratings — published 1992
Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as geography)
avg rating 4.58 — 2,034 ratings — published 2012
The Scrambled States of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as geography)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,149 ratings — published 1998
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as geography)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,529 ratings — published 2016
Tree in the Trail: A Cottonwood Tree Witnesses American History on the Santa Fe Trail for Kids (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as geography)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,493 ratings — published 1942
Seabird (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as geography)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,377 ratings — published 1948
An Atlas of Extinct Countries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as geography)
avg rating 3.58 — 3,376 ratings — published 2020
A History of the World in 12 Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as geography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,797 ratings — published 2012
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as geography)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,943 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 — 38,757 ratings — published 2008
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as geography)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,157 ratings — published 1977
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as geography)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,016 ratings — published 1961
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as geography)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,150 ratings — published 2019
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as geography)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,111 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 — 9,056 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 — 49,020 ratings — published 2015
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as geography)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,885 ratings — published 2011
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as geography)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,426 ratings — published 2006
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as geography)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,377 ratings — published 2006
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 — 2,643 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 — 5,274 ratings — published 2010
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as geography)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,056 ratings — published 2015
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as geography)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,324 ratings — published 2016
Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as geography)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,425 ratings — published 2012
Mapping Penny's World (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as geography)
avg rating 3.93 — 590 ratings — published 2000
“All I ever wanted was a world without maps.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“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












