Stories about the world: black and white illustrated edition

This is a geography book about people. Long Fang tells the historical evolution of the country from a geographical perspective, analyzes the personality characteristics of different people, and explains the relationship between people and our only and common home, the earth. Since our planet "has become a huge operating company", people living in it can only cooperate-not just "take away" or "give away"-to be peaceful and orderly.

This may not be a geography book in the strict sense, but it is quite interesting to read.

2. Geography and life

Original title: introduction to geography, 1 1e

Compared with other geography books, this book highlights the relevance between geography and life. Weather phenomena that are harmful to human health, urban land use patterns, changes in urban forms, and the treatment of urban garbage and hazardous wastes are all closely related to our lives. Plain and vivid words and rich examples make this book extremely readable, and readers will gain a new way of thinking through this book.

Earth story after 346 million years.

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This book is not only a popular science reading, but also a cultural reading: it talks about the operation of the atmosphere, the changes of landforms, the origin and influence of rivers, oceans, volcanoes, earthquakes, metal minerals, Aristotle's outlook on life, the changes of human civilization, Noah's Ark, human desires, the era of great navigation and so on. While introducing earth knowledge and popularizing science, it also brings us a journey of the formation of human civilization.

4. The End of the Ancient Sunshine

Save the earth's resources

This book first describes the current situation of the world: population growth, resource depletion, and how we destroy our "nest" all the way. In this part, it is particularly important to have a new insight into an element that few people have discovered: the energy source of food and fuel, and the evidence that we are running out of this source. We will discuss how the current situation is caused and why many people are not alert when they know it is going to rain.

5. All possible worlds

History of geographical thought

This is a classic book on the history of geography and the history of geographical thought. In the book, the author provides the evolution history of geographical concepts in ancient, medieval and modern western countries and regions, and introduces the general situation of their geographers and geographers, which is helpful for readers to understand the research and practice of cross-cultural geography around the world.

6. Wang's Essays on Cultural Geography

This collection of essays by Mr. Wang contains 76 essays, covering three aspects: human geography, political geography and geography education. With strong humanistic thoughts, the book explains the thoughts and contents of cultural geography from the perspectives of architecture and diet. At the same time, from the perspective of man-land relationship and geopolitics, this paper analyzes and explains the changes of civilization, the rise and fall of great powers and cultural phenomena such as religion, language and customs. This book is wide in knowledge, informative and readable.

7. a beautiful earth

Original name: LaTerre

The Good Earth is a popular science book about geography, written by French scientist Fabers. The book is divided into 25 chapters, covering all aspects of the earth in which we live. Vivid and rigorous writing: from the macro environment of the earth to a small piece of land, a mountain range, a river and ocean, polar regions, the center of the earth and collapsed hills, the author systematically and in detail tells the relevant knowledge. Fabres's writing has always been easy to understand, very interesting and attractive to readers. "The Good Earth" inherits and highlights this style and is a rare masterpiece of popular science.

8. The story of geographical discovery

Englishman joseph jacobs.

In this book, the author takes time as the axis, starts from the birthplace of geographical knowledge, and introduces the process of human beings' continuous cognition of geographical knowledge through conquest, expansion, trade and exchange in plain language. Through the historical stories of geographical discovery, we can understand how maps and geographical knowledge were recorded. (Recommended books in the recommendation book: www.tuijianshu.net)

9. History of geographical development

Dickinson [England] Howard

The history of geography is divided into 20 chapters, including geography in ancient civilization, Greek philosophers and historians, Ptolemy, the beginning of European geography renaissance, Portuguese overseas colonization, German school, exploration and painting in19th century, Humboldt and liddell, the development of physical geography, the development of life geography, the development of biogeography and the concept of regional geography.