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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
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3 - The Masters of History
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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 Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
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
Paddle-to-the-Sea
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
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
How to Lie with Maps

Michael Ondaatje
All I ever wanted was a world without maps.
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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

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