Suggested Books for Human Geography

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,050 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings
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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1) 4.19 avg rating — 110,358 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 4.05 avg rating — 93,184 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,622 ratings
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Kon-Tiki
Kon-Tiki 4.16 avg rating — 24,592 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals 4.19 avg rating — 208,898 ratings
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World 3.96 avg rating — 9,298 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution 4.14 avg rating — 28,421 ratings
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The Greenlanders
The Greenlanders 3.93 avg rating — 3,029 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,849 ratings
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Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating — 1,165,680 ratings
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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy 4.22 avg rating — 1,456 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,258,039 ratings
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 4.36 avg rating — 36,107 ratings
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The Forest People
The Forest People 3.96 avg rating — 2,477 ratings
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Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire 4.18 avg rating — 53,112 ratings
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The Milagro Beanfield War
The Milagro Beanfield War 4.10 avg rating — 10,587 ratings
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Europe and the People Without History
Europe and the People Without History 4.13 avg rating — 1,277 ratings
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Geopolitics and Empire: The Legacy of Halford Mackinder (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series)
Geopolitics and Empire: The Legacy of Halford Mackinder (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series) 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Day the Universe Changed
Day the Universe Changed 4.21 avg rating — 2,071 ratings
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The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky 4.02 avg rating — 1,880 ratings
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The Post-American World
The Post-American World 3.86 avg rating — 12,810 ratings
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Going Back to Bisbee
Going Back to Bisbee 4.17 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 4.34 avg rating — 1,201,838 ratings
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The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 28,457 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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Kabloona
Kabloona 4.18 avg rating — 841 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 4.07 avg rating — 436,134 ratings
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Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond (South Sea Books)
Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond (South Sea Books) 3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life 3.98 avg rating — 8,824 ratings
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Her Own Special Island
Her Own Special Island 3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia 4.03 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Three Cups of Tea
Three Cups of Tea 3.66 avg rating — 358,692 ratings
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In Siberia
In Siberia 3.97 avg rating — 2,897 ratings
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Wind, Sand and Stars
Wind, Sand and Stars 4.12 avg rating — 20,392 ratings
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The Mosquito Coast
The Mosquito Coast 3.81 avg rating — 13,612 ratings
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Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up A Woefully Incomplete Guide
Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up A Woefully Incomplete Guide 3.85 avg rating — 291 ratings
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The New Berlin: Memory, Politics, Place
The New Berlin: Memory, Politics, Place 3.58 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Social Justice and the City
Social Justice and the City 4.15 avg rating — 280 ratings
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People of the Deer
People of the Deer 4.08 avg rating — 1,565 ratings
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Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works
Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works 4.15 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place 4.18 avg rating — 10,618 ratings
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Geographies, Mobilities, and Rhythms over the Life-Course: Adventures in the Interval
Geographies, Mobilities, and Rhythms over the Life-Course: Adventures in the Interval really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Pompeii : The Living City
Pompeii : The Living City 3.90 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World 3.63 avg rating — 626 ratings
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Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth 4.11 avg rating — 436 ratings
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India: A Sacred Geography
India: A Sacred Geography 4.06 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Race and the Crisis of Humanism
Race and the Crisis of Humanism 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias
Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and Our Search for New Utopias 3.60 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 3.88 avg rating — 21,503 ratings
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This Is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
This Is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia 4.24 avg rating — 6,613 ratings
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The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History
The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History 4.27 avg rating — 1,906 ratings
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Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North
Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North 4.18 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Secret of Divine Civilization
The Secret of Divine Civilization 4.81 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath 3.94 avg rating — 1,495 ratings
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Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine
Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Planet of Slums
Planet of Slums really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,286 ratings
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The Dictionary of Human Geography
The Dictionary of Human Geography 4.10 avg rating — 50 ratings
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You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station
You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes: Photographs from the International Space Station 4.29 avg rating — 2,190 ratings
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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout 3.97 avg rating — 4,538 ratings
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A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities
Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities 3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Logics of Dislocation: Models, Metaphors, and Meanings of Economic Space
Logics of Dislocation: Models, Metaphors, and Meanings of Economic Space 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Women, Urbanization and Sustainability: Practices of Survival, Adaptation and Resistance
Women, Urbanization and Sustainability: Practices of Survival, Adaptation and Resistance 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture
Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture 4.33 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World 3.99 avg rating — 3,775 ratings
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World 3.84 avg rating — 38,201 ratings
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The Tyranny of Distance
The Tyranny of Distance 3.96 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Century of Light
Century of Light 4.80 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs 4.10 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
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Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River
Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River 4.41 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World
Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World 4.11 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Stop Global Street Harassment: Growing Activism Around the World
Stop Global Street Harassment: Growing Activism Around the World 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood
New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood 3.97 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War
Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Wolf Willow
Wolf Willow 3.97 avg rating — 964 ratings
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The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest 4.16 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Theoretical Geography
Theoretical Geography 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing ANZACS
The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing ANZACS 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West
Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West 4.28 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo 4.14 avg rating — 1,945 ratings
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Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey 4.02 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
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The Human Experience of Space and Place
The Human Experience of Space and Place 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918
Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918 3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Sound of Mountain Water
The Sound of Mountain Water 3.99 avg rating — 417 ratings
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Mountain City
Mountain City 4.04 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Fire on the Mountain
Fire on the Mountain 3.99 avg rating — 2,661 ratings
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Capitalist World Development: A Critique of Radical Development Geography
Capitalist World Development: A Critique of Radical Development Geography it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Tortilla Curtain
The Tortilla Curtain 3.66 avg rating — 34,023 ratings
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Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past
Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past 4.22 avg rating — 1,762 ratings
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Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America 4.22 avg rating — 5,752 ratings
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Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape
Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape 3.79 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Comrades of War
Comrades of War 4.07 avg rating — 1,884 ratings
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Poldark: Ross Poldark / Demelza (Poldark, #1-2)
Poldark: Ross Poldark / Demelza (Poldark, #1-2) 4.28 avg rating — 191 ratings
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The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade
The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade 3.99 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography
The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography 3.35 avg rating — 443 ratings
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