Historical Geography
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries
$18.95 Add to cartThe remarkable (and occasionally ridiculous) stories of 48 nations that fell off the map.
“Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once you get up close.”
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- Author: Defoe, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457668
- Language: English
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Mapping the North: Myth, Exploration, Encounter
$40.00 Read moreAn eye-opening history of the exploration and mapping of our globe’s northernmost regions.
Maps have played a central role in our understanding of what and where defines the North. At the same time, t
- Author: Forss, Charlotta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1851245723
- Language: English
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The Queen’s Atlas: Saxton’s Elizabethan Masterpiece
$55.00 Add to cartA cartographic snapshot of late Tudor England, gorgeously reproduced with the first county maps of England and Wales.
Nowadays, we take for granted the ready availability of maps of all kinds, but in
- Author: Fletcher, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1851246207
- Language: English
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Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 12 Maps, this is the revelatory history of the four cardinal directions that have oriented and defined our place on the globe fo
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0802166008
- Language: English
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Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
$32.00 Add to cartA magisterial history of the seven rivers representing the great natural arteries running through civilization, by virtue of the roles they have played in our shared and conflicted world history.
Ever- Author: Taylor, Vanessa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368639
- Language: English
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40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World
$28.00 Add to cartTurn the pages of this thought-provoking book, and discover maps that challenge conventional wisdom, confront social and political norms and offer fresh perspectives on familiar landscapes.
This metic- Author: Bonnett, Alastair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0711293538
- Language: English
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Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences: Origins of Louisiana Cities, Towns, and Villages
$34.95 Add to cartRichard Campanella’s Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences tells the epic story of human settlement in Louisiana, unearthing the original geographical rationales for the formation of hundreds of cities
- Author: Campanella, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0807185108
- Language: English
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Inventing Niagara
$21.99 Add to cartAmericans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the Falls aren’t very natural anymore. In fact, they are a study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshaped, brink stabilized and landscape redes… [more below]
- Author: Strand, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 141654657X
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Migration: When, Why, and How Humans Move – From the Prehistoric Peopling of the Planet to Today and Tomorrow’s Migrants
$16.95 Add to cartFor hundreds of thousands of years, the ability of Homo sapiens to travel across vast distances and adapt to new environments has been key to our survival as a species. And yet this deep migratory imp
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Goldin, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030600
- Language: English
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Palestine 1492: A Report Back
$25.00 Add to cartPalestine 1492 is a report back of what I see from 500 years of the struggle for life in words, maps, and images in the seven cardinal directions and in the spiral that is time.
In Maya geography, ther
- Author: Quiquivix, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1737190036
- Language: English
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Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
$19.99 Add to cartIs geography really destiny?
Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic myths. Myths like Europe being the center of th- Author: Richardson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1335146865
- Language: English
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Landmark Maps of Texas: The Frank and Carol Holcomb Collection
$100.00 Read moreLandmark Maps of Texas features important depictions of the Lone Star State and the Americas from 1513 to 1904. 100 maps in their old color grace its pages and many of these specimens are extraordinar
- Author: Holcomb, Frank H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1649670206
- Language: English
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A Child’s Geography of the World
$39.99 Add to cartA Child’s Geography of the World is a general course in geography for juveniles. Hillyer was headmaster at the famed Calvert School and wrote a series of books as part of the curriculum for his studen
- Author: Hillyer, V. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 494
- Publish Date: December 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1638232873
- Language: English
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Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction
$27.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 12 Maps, this is the revelatory history of the four cardinal directions that have oriented and defined our place on the globe fo
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163688
- Language: English
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To the Ends of the Earth: How the Greatest Maps Were Made
$35.00 Read moreThis lavishly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the evolution of mapmaking and the science behind it, from the stone age to the digital age.
Britain’s leading cartographic author takes- Author: Parker, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0711282641
- Language: English
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Landmark Maps of Texas: The Frank and Carol Holcomb Collection
$100.00 Read moreLandmark Maps of Texas features important depictions of the Lone Star State and the Americas from 1513 to 1904. 100 maps in their old color grace its pages and many of these specimens are extraordinar
- Author: Holcomb, Frank H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1649670206
- Language: English
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The Cosmography and Geography of Africa
$22.00 Add to cartThe first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat’s guide to Africa
A Penguin Classic In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan d- Author: Africanus, Johannes Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0241543932
- Language: English
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A People’s Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia: Volume 6
$24.95 Add to cartAn expansive guide for resistance and solidarity across this storied region.
Richmond and Central Virginia are a historic epicenter of America’s racialized history. This alternative guidebook foregro- Series: People’s Guide
- Author: Ooten, Melissa Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0520344162
- Language: English
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A Child’s Geography of the World
$24.99 Add to cartA Child’s Geography of the World is a general course in geography for juveniles. Hillyer was headmaster at the famed Calvert School and wrote a series of books as part of the curriculum for his studen
- Author: Hillyer, V. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 494
- Publish Date: December 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1638233128
- Language: English
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Himalaya: A Human History
$25.00 Read moreFor centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers, and mountaineers seeking to test themselves
- Author: Douglas, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 618
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882462
- Language: English
