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

The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World
Islands of Abandonment
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide
Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Blue Floats Away
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
Paddle-to-the-Sea
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Atlas of Remote Islands
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
Me on the Map
The Scrambled States of America
How to Lie with Maps
How the States Got Their Shapes
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherGRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS  by Scott  NelsonGlam Italia! How to Travel Italy by Corinna CookeThe Two Week Traveller by Matthew Lightfoot
travel essentials
56 books — 46 voters
Time and Tide in Acadia by Christopher CamutoThe Village and The Hill by Richard W. BillingsThe Story of Mount Desert Island by Samuel Eliot MorisonTrails Of History by Tom St. GermainLove on the Rocks by Kathryn Muether
Mount Desert Island Books
16 books — 1 voter

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondPrisoners of Geography by Tim  MarshallThe Revenge Of Geography by Robert D. KaplanHistory of the World Map by Map by D.K. PublishingBienville's Dilemma by Richard Campanella
Geographic Literacy
104 books — 8 voters

Zetetic Astronomy by Samuel Birley RowbothamFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottZetetic Cosmogony by Thomas WinshipKings Dethroned by Gerrard HicksonOne Hundred Proofs that the Earth is not a Globe by William   Carpenter
Flat Earth Books
15 books — 2 voters
Monarchs and Milkweed by Anurag AgrawalWild Migrations by Matthew J. KauffmanThe Homing Instinct by Bernd HeinrichFour Wings and a Prayer by Sue HalpernSalmon by Mark Kurlansky
Animal Migration
27 books — 6 voters


Mark Twain
“ God created war so that Americans would learn geography. ”
― Mark Twain

S.E. Hinton
“ Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too. ”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

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