Review | Dangerous Earth
G.T. Dempsey reviews Ellen Prager’s Dangerous Earth: What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More.
Review | Phantom Islands: In Search of Mythical Lands
In this book, Dirk Liesener provides the life-stories of islands, some thirty of them, which though thought to exist in some cases for many centuries turned out to either not be an island or to have never existed to start with.
Review | The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success
This is a most useful primer on climate change and its consequences.
Review | The Best American Travel Writing 2019
The ‘Best American Travel Writing 2019’ features pieces on either dangerous places or the pursuit of the exotic as well-informed as they are well-written.
Review | Peary’s Arctic Quest
Peary’s Arctic Quest: Untold Stories from Robert E. Peary’s North Pole Expeditions is both a rigorous scholarly work and a popular exposition of Robert Peary’s Arctic achievements and his legacy.
Review | On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
In On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey, Theroux is determined to experience the real Mexico, as a traveler, not a tourist.
Review | Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA
Sprawlball demonstrates how basketball – that is, its professional incarnation in the NBA – has become a game of analytics.
Review | Horizon
Horizon by Barry Lopez can, perhaps, be best described as an intellectual autobiography by means of geography and the abiding truths of the natural world.
Review | Who Owns England?
The concentration of wealth – in England, particularly landed wealth – is a most serious issue.
Review | Scotland: Defending the Nation, Mapping the Military Landscape
‘Scotland: Defending the Nation, Mapping the Military Landscape’ is a comprehensive history of modern Scotland illustrated through such maps.
Review | There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
Mike Berners-Lee presents an ‘evidence-based practical guide to the make or break choices we face now’ in the Anthropocene age.
Review | Maps (Poetry)
This slim book reminds us that maps are not just lines and images on a surface – on paper or a globe – they are also emotional passages into the remembering and the meaning of our lives.