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.
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More anecdotal than history, License to Travel is both an engaging and instructive book.
Ian Morris provides a most-useful survey history of Britain from geologic time to the present centered around three maps.
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd is a suspense novel with a cartographic twist.
‘Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption’ by Mitchell Schwarzer is a superb example of urban history.
This book sets out, in some nine chapters, both the ‘turbulent’ journey of that one species living 3.7 billion years ago to the 8.7 million today and the human activity threatening that biodiversity.