Geography Book Reviews
Reviews about geography publications. Reviewed here are atlases, poetry, novels, and geography related non-fiction.
License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport | Geography Book Review
G.T. Dempsey
More anecdotal than history, License to Travel is both an engaging and instructive book.
Geography is Destiny: Britain and the World | Book Review
G.T. Dempsey
Ian Morris provides a most-useful survey history of Britain from geologic time to the present centered around three maps.
Book Review | The Cartographers
G.T. Dempsey
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd is a suspense novel with a cartographic twist.
Review | Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption
G.T. Dempsey
'Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption' by Mitchell Schwarzer is a superb example of urban history.
Review | Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error
G.T. Dempsey
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.