Book Reviews
- Edwin Bernbaum: Sacred Mountains of the World*
- religion and spirituality; glorious photographs
- Fernand Braudel: The Mediterranean*
And the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II
- The Budawang Committee: Pigeon House and Beyond
A Guide to the Budawang Range and Environs
- David Buisseret: Envisioning the City
Six Studies in Urban Cartography
- James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti: Atlas of the Invisible*
Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
- Robert Cribb: Historical Atlas of Indonesia**
- learned and lavish
- Robert Cribb: Digital Atlas of Indonesian History
- an updated electronic version of the printed atlas
- John Davies: The Making of Wales
- landscapes, settlements, buildings
- Christine Drake: National Integration in Indonesia
- spatial analysis of the 1980 census
- Ian Harrison: Britain From Above
- aerial imaging of landscapes and infrastructure
- W.G. Hoskins: English Landscapes*
- decoding the historical layers in rural landscapes
- Fouad N. Ibrahim, Barbara Ibrahim: Egypt: An Economic Geography
- a broad-ranging survey
- Christian Jost: The French-Speaking Pacific
Population, Environment and Development Issues
- John Keay: The Great Arc
The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named
- Marc Levinson: The Box*
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
- Huw Lewis-Jones: The Writer's Map*
An Atlas of Imaginary Lands
- Colin McEvedy: Penguin Atlas of African History
- Malcolm McKinnon: New Zealand Historical Atlas
- novel and innovative visualisations
- Mike Parker: Map Addict
A Tale of Obsession, Fudge and the Ordnance Survey
- Francis Pryor: The Making of the British Landscape*
How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today
- Oliver Rackham: The History of the Countryside*
The classic history of Britain's landscape, flora and fauna
- Neil Roberts: The Holocene
An Environmental History
- Malise Ruthven, Azim Nanji: Historical Atlas of Islam
- disappointing: uneven and in places inaccurate
- Jon Shaw, Iain Docherty: The Transport Debate
- an overview of transport issues in the United Kingdom
- Mark D. Spalding, et al.: World Atlas of Coral Reefs
- reef geography, geology, ecology, and conservation
- Bob Sutcliffe: 100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World
- graphical presentations of different forms of inequality
- Norman J. W. Thrower: Maps and Civilization*
Cartography in Culture and Society
- Kate Tiller, Giles Darkes: An Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire
- from prehistory to the present
- Adriaan Verhulst: The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe
- the 4th to 12th centuries, from the Meuse to the Scheldt
- Jacob Vossestein: The Dutch and their Delta
Living below sea level
- David Zurick, P.P. Karan: Himalaya
Life on the Edge of the World
See also:
climate + weather |
exploration |
geology