Riku Sayuj's Reviews > Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Prisoners of Geography by Tim  Marshall
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bookshelves: geography, geo-politix, history, history-outline, history-theory, history-europe
Read 2 times. Last read December 5, 2019 to December 7, 2019.

Marshall could have kept up the initial presentation and analysis throughout the book, but at some point the editors decided to shorten the pages and compress regions together. As a fellow reviewer says, "It is solid stuff, but after some time this geography thing gets a bit repetitive – plains, mountains, rivers, plainsmountainsrivers, portsportsports ..."
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Reading Progress

September 18, 2016 – Started Reading
September 18, 2016 – Shelved
September 18, 2016 – Shelved as: to-read
September 20, 2016 – Shelved as: geography
September 20, 2016 – Shelved as: geo-politix
September 20, 2016 – Shelved as: history
September 20, 2016 – Shelved as: history-outline
September 20, 2016 – Shelved as: history-theory
September 20, 2016 – Shelved as: history-europe
September 21, 2016 – Finished Reading
December 5, 2019 – Started Reading
December 7, 2019 – Finished Reading

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Greg Riku, I agree with everything you say. The premise is interesting, and there are some facts I probably learned in grade school but have since forgotten. But in essence there isn't much here that one can't find by scrolling the internet.


message 2: by Hritviz (new)

Hritviz Dinkar Most book should have been blogs. Most blogs should have been tweets. - Naval Ravikant


Riku Sayuj Hritviz wrote: "Most book should have been blogs. Most blogs should have been tweets. - Naval Ravikant"

Amen. And most tweets should have been? :)


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Yoanna Covfefe 😉


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