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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 867 times as geography)
avg rating 4.19 — 122,139 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as geography)
avg rating 4.04 — 467,444 ratings — published 1997
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 257 times as geography)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,481 ratings — published 2021
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as geography)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,300 ratings — published 2011
The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as geography)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,329 ratings — published 2012
Paddle-to-the-Sea (Library Binding)
by (shelved 130 times as geography)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,029 ratings — published 1941
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as geography)
avg rating 3.53 — 4,197 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 — 77,487 ratings — published 1995
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as geography)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,472 ratings — published 2012
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as geography)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,858 ratings — published 2023
Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as geography)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,976 ratings — published 2018
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as geography)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,936 ratings — published 2009
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as geography)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,381 ratings — published 2004
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as geography)
avg rating 3.81 — 14,276 ratings — published 2001
Me On The Map (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as geography)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,070 ratings — published 1996
How to Lie with Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as geography)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,217 ratings — published 1991
Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as geography)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,467 ratings — published 2016
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as geography)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,975 ratings — published 2019
How the States Got Their Shapes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as geography)
avg rating 3.54 — 3,984 ratings — published 2008
How I Learned Geography (Caldecott Honor Book)
by (shelved 66 times as geography)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,850 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 4.04 — 4,642 ratings — published 1993
Minn of the Mississippi (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as geography)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,510 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 — 1,151 ratings — published 1992
The Scrambled States of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as geography)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,161 ratings — published 1998
Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as geography)
avg rating 4.59 — 2,054 ratings — published 2012
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as geography)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,711 ratings — published 2016
Tree in the Trail: A Cottonwood Tree Witnesses American History on the Santa Fe Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as geography)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,538 ratings — published 1942
An Atlas of Extinct Countries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as geography)
avg rating 3.58 — 3,511 ratings — published 2020
Seabird (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as geography)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,415 ratings — published 1948
A History of the World in 12 Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as geography)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,817 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 — 2,009 ratings — published 2019
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as geography)
avg rating 3.84 — 39,060 ratings — published 2008
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as geography)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,180 ratings — published 1977
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as geography)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,248 ratings — published 2019
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as geography)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,143 ratings — published 1994
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as geography)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,540 ratings — published 1961
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as geography)
avg rating 4.16 — 51,022 ratings — published 2015
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as geography)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,291 ratings — published 2020
Elementary Geography: Full Illustrations & Study Guides! (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as geography)
avg rating 4.05 — 177 ratings — published 1925
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 45 times as geography)
avg rating 4.02 — 552 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 45 times as geography)
avg rating 4.10 — 168 ratings — published 1988
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as geography)
avg rating 4.20 — 15,250 ratings — published 2011
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
by (shelved 43 times as geography)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,129 ratings — published 2025
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as geography)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,319 ratings — published 2010
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as geography)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,225 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 — 2,677 ratings — published
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as geography)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,433 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as geography)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,207 ratings — published 2024
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as geography)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,136 ratings — published 2015
Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as geography)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,471 ratings — published 2012
“Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and recognized and guessed and supposed, all the skills of the imagination. Language itself is a continuously imaginative act. Rational discourse outside our familiar territory of Greek logic sounds to our ears like the wildest imagination. The Dogon, a people of West Africa, will tell you that a white fox named Ogo frequently weaves himself a hat of string bean hulls, puts it on his impudent head, and dances in the okra to insult and infuriate God Almighty, and that there's nothing we can do about it except abide him in faith and patience.
This is not folklore, or quaint custom, but as serious a matter to the Dogon as a filling station to us Americans. The imagination; that is, the way we shape and use the world, indeed the way we see the world, has geographical boundaries like islands, continents, and countries. These boundaries can be crossed. That Dogon fox and his impudent dance came to live with us, but in a different body, and to serve a different mode of the imagination. We call him Brer Rabbit.”
― The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
This is not folklore, or quaint custom, but as serious a matter to the Dogon as a filling station to us Americans. The imagination; that is, the way we shape and use the world, indeed the way we see the world, has geographical boundaries like islands, continents, and countries. These boundaries can be crossed. That Dogon fox and his impudent dance came to live with us, but in a different body, and to serve a different mode of the imagination. We call him Brer Rabbit.”
― The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
“(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.”
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"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.”
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