Geography Book Reviews
Reviews about geography publications. Reviewed here are atlases, poetry, novels, and geography related non-fiction.
Scotland: Defending the Nation, Mapping the Military Landscape | Book Review
'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.
Review | The Longest Line on the Map
This book tells the story of how and why the Pan-American Highway was conceived and, poignantly, the why of a stubborn gap that remains unconnected.
Review | Oxford Atlas of the World, 25th Edition
The Oxford Atlas of the World, 25th edition, has a new feature on Tourism and Travel and new maps on armed conflicts around the world, as well as a new map on Antarctica using the latest data from the British Antarctic Survey.
Review | Medieval Ireland
Medieval Ireland is Clare Downham's comprehensive synthesis of the current state-of-play of the history of medieval Ireland, 400-1500 A.D.
Review | Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library
Tom Harper's Atlas: A World of Maps from is a ‘definitive showcase’ of the British Library, one of the world’s largest with over four million maps.
Review | Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
The book, Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire, examines theories of medicine and science within a colonial, racially-mixed population.
Review | The Ape that Understood the Universe
The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve is an engaging, intriguing, and ultimately most satisfying look into what the human mind can do and how it got that way.
Review | The Consolation of Maps
Set in the world of the international trade in antique maps, this novel’s title seems most apt.
Review | The Nocturnal City
Robert Shaw's newly published book, The Nocturnal City, is an effort to delve into the city at night which is a “very different time-space from day.”
Review | The First Three Hundred Years of Historical Atlases
Though published a decade and a half ago, Walter Goffart's Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, remains the indispensable reference source for the appearance and development of historical atlases in the Western world.
Review | A History of the Future
The History of Future presents a survey of the history of futuristic predictions from the nineteenth century on through the first two-thirds of the twentieth, in the English-speaking world
Review | Oxford Atlas of the World, 24th Edition
G.T. Dempsey reviews the Oxford Atlas of the World. The 24th edition is scheduled to be published November, 2017.
Review | Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System
G.T. Dempsey reviews Bonnie J. Buratti's Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System.
Review | Curbing Catastrophe: Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction in the Modern World
G.T Dempsey reviews Timothy H. Dixon's new book, 'Curbing Catastrophe: Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction in the Modern World.'
The Geography of Genius
The Geography of Genus, by Eric Weiner, takes a look at where and how geniuses flourish in the world.