Worldbuilder's Book Club 2023 - hosted by quartzen

Geography and Cartography
Choose a book about geography, landscape, or cartography, including books about how the terrain of a specific place has affected life there, features of the landscape like oceans or volcanoes, the process of mapmaking or the impact of maps on society and related topics.
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An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States by Nick Middleton

An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States

Nick Middleton

230 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history reference travel challenging informative reflective fast-paced
Boundary Markers: Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand by Giselle Byrnes

Boundary Markers: Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand

Giselle Byrnes

176 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Fortune is a River: Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History by Roger D. Masters

Fortune is a River: Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History

Roger D. Masters

278 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction art history adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners by Travis Elborough, Martin Brown

Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners

Unexpected Atlases

Travis Elborough, Martin Brown

224 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative fast-paced
Singing Saltwater Country: Journey to the Songlines of Carpentaria by Yanyuwa Families, Yanyuwa Yanyuwa Families, John Bradley

Singing Saltwater Country: Journey to the Songlines of Carpentaria

Yanyuwa Families, Yanyuwa Yanyuwa Families, John Bradley

336 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China by Craig Clunas

Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China

Envisioning Asia

Craig Clunas

240 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction design history medium-paced
Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They Are Today Winner Illustrated Book of the Year - Edward Stanford Travel Writin by Travis Elborough

Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They Are Today Winner Illustrated Book of the Year - Edward Stanford Travel Writin

Unexpected Atlases

Travis Elborough

208 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative slow-paced
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies by Alastair Bonnett

Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies

Alastair Bonnett

270 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous reflective medium-paced
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester

The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

Simon Winchester

9 hours, 59 minutes • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

Annals of the Former World

Annals of the Former World #5

John McPhee

696 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative slow-paced