License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport | Geography Book Review
More anecdotal than history, License to Travel is both an engaging and instructive book.
Cultural geography studies the relationship between people, customs, and geography. Cultural geography studies people’s cultural values, behaviors, discursive and material expressions, and artefacts, as well as society’s cultural diversity and heterogeneity, how cultures are spread over space, how places and identities are formed, how people make sense of places and create senses of place, and how people develop and communicate information and meaning.
More anecdotal than history, License to Travel is both an engaging and instructive book.
Talking at the Gates by James Campbell is a biography of James Baldwin, one of the most influential American writers of the twentieth century.