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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 894 times as geography)
avg rating 4.18 — 125,250 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as geography)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,346 ratings — published 1997
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as geography)
avg rating 4.18 — 27,433 ratings — published 2021
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 244 times as geography)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,383 ratings — published 2011
The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as geography)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,407 ratings — published 2012
Paddle-to-the-Sea (Library Binding)
by (shelved 132 times as geography)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,106 ratings — published 1941
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as geography)
avg rating 3.53 — 4,242 ratings — published 2014
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as geography)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,115 ratings — published 1995
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as geography)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,492 ratings — published 2012
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as geography)
avg rating 3.91 — 8,189 ratings — published 2023
Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as geography)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,095 ratings — published 2018
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as geography)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,014 ratings — published 2009
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as geography)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,734 ratings — published 2004
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as geography)
avg rating 3.81 — 14,368 ratings — published 2001
Me On The Map (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as geography)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,075 ratings — published 1996
How to Lie with Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as geography)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,230 ratings — published 1991
Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as geography)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,591 ratings — published 2016
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as geography)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,454 ratings — published 2019
How the States Got Their Shapes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as geography)
avg rating 3.54 — 4,027 ratings — published 2008
How I Learned Geography (Caldecott Honor Book)
by (shelved 66 times as geography)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,854 ratings — published 2008
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as geography)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,693 ratings — published 1993
Minn of the Mississippi (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as geography)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,528 ratings — published 1951
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as geography)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,787 ratings — published 2016
Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as geography)
avg rating 4.58 — 2,065 ratings — published 2012
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 — 1,158 ratings — published 1992
The Scrambled States of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as geography)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,161 ratings — published 1998
Tree in the Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as geography)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,550 ratings — published 1942
An Atlas of Extinct Countries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as geography)
avg rating 3.58 — 3,635 ratings — published 2020
Seabird (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as geography)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,440 ratings — published 1948
A History of the World in 12 Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as geography)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,837 ratings — published 2012
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
by (shelved 51 times as geography)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,321 ratings — published 2025
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as geography)
avg rating 3.84 — 39,301 ratings — published 2008
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as geography)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,026 ratings — published 2019
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as geography)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,409 ratings — published 2015
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as geography)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,899 ratings — published 1961
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as geography)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,195 ratings — published 1977
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as geography)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,339 ratings — published 2019
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as geography)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,170 ratings — published 1994
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as geography)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,401 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 46 times as geography)
avg rating 4.02 — 553 ratings — published 1985
Elementary Geography: Full Illustrations & Study Guides! (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as geography)
avg rating 4.05 — 177 ratings — published 1925
Geography from A to Z: A Picture Glossary ― A Kirkus-Praised Alphabet Book of Earth's Physical Features for Kids (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 — 15,497 ratings — published 2011
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as geography)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,701 ratings — published 2007
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as geography)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,372 ratings — published 2010
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as geography)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,791 ratings — published 2006
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as geography)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,470 ratings — published 2006
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as geography)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,680 ratings — published 2024
The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as geography)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,392 ratings — published 2016
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as geography)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,176 ratings — published 2015
“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
