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1) National Geographic Magazine

Series

National Geographic Magazine

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eMagazine, Magazine

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The latest news in science, exploration, and culture will open your eyes to the world’s many wonders. Get a National Geographic digital magazine subscription today and experience the same high-quality articles and breathtaking photography contained in the print edit.

2) Pacific: silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers

Author

Winchester, Simon

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Small Island, Big Song

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.

3) Africa

Author

Reader, John

4) National Geographic Kids (AU/NZ)

Series

National Geographic Kids

Formats

eMagazine, Magazine

Description

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National Geographic Kids magazine - the perfect balance between learning and fun! A must-have for children ages 6 and up. Each issue is packed with colorful photos, games, puzzles, fun features and facts about animals, science, technology, and more.

5) Washington's historical markers

Author

Scofield, W. M

Pub. Date

[1967]

Physical Desc

79 p. illus. 21 cm.

Description

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Photos of many major historical markers throughout the state are represented in this book.

6) The revenge of geography: what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate

Author

Kaplan, Robert D

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The insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the past look back at critical pivots in history and then look forward at the evolving global scene.

7) Atlantic: great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories

Author

Winchester, Simon

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vastness. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to far shores, whether it was the Vikings, the Irish, the Chinese, Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south, the Atlantic evolved in the world's growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water bounded by the Americas to the West, and by...

8) Geography for nongeographers

Author

Spellman, Frank R

Pub. Date

2010

Physical Desc

viii, 343 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

9) Beyond the edge of the sea: sailing with Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and other explorers of the ancient world

Author

Obregón, Mauricio

Pub. Date

2001

Physical Desc

x, 132 p. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.

10) The water kingdom: a secret history of China

Author

Ball, Philip

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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"From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries ... In The Water Kingdom, Ball takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, showing how the complexity and energy of the country and its history repeatedly come back to the challenges, opportunities, and inspiration provided by the waterways. Drawing on stories from travelers and explorers, poets...

11) India

Author

Gagne, Tammy

Series

Essential library of countries

Pub. Date

[2023]

Physical Desc

112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 22 x 25 cm.

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This title highlights major destinations within India and the people who shape the nation's culture. Readers will learn about the geography, wildlife, history, people, and economy of India, gaining an understanding of what life looks like in the country today.

12) The World & all that is in it: four decades of National Geographic's special collection

Pub. Date

c2009

Physical Desc

223 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

13) Unruly places: lost spaces, secret cities, and other inscrutable geographies

Author

Bonnett, Alastair

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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"The real-life answers to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Unruly Places explores the most extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places on the planet. Alastair Bonnett's tour of the planet's most unlikely micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands shows us the modern world from surprising new vantage points, bound to inspire urban explorers, off-the-beaten-trail wanderers, and armchair travelers. He connects what we see on maps...

14) Map of Washington

Author

Cram, George Franklin

15) A history of Canada in ten maps: epic stories of charting a mysterious land

Author

Shoalts, Adam

Pub. Date

2018.

Physical Desc

344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 21 cm

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Adam Shoalts, one of Canada's foremost explorers, tells the stories behind centuries old maps, and how they came to shape what became Canada. It's a story that will surprise readers, and reveal the Canada we never knew was hidden. It brings to life the characters and the bloody disputes that forged our history, by showing us what the world looked like before it entered the history books. Combining storytelling, cartography, geography, archaeology...