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Geography Books

To find books about geography at WSU Libraries use the Search It catalog with your keywords, authors, titles, or subject headings. Unless you know your title and/or author it might work best to start a search by keyword, for example, 'geography africa' and then use appropriate subject headings appearing in book records that match your criteria.

Here are some Library of Congress subject headings for geography and related topics:

geography
biogeography
geography [name of region, country, state, etc.]
economic geography
environmental geography
human geography
mathematical geography
geography study and teaching
maps
cartography
voyages and travels
urban geography
rural geography
geography ancient
geographic information systems
geography history
map projections
digital mapping
geography philosophy
remote sensing
discoveries in geography
adventure and adventurers
ocean travel
scientific expeditions

Books on Travel & Exploration From Our Collection

The True Geography of Our Country; Jefferson's Cartographic Vision by Joel S. Kovarsky
Call Number: Holland/Terrell Libraries E332.2 .K68 2014
Publication Date: 2014
In The True Geography of Our Country: Jeffersons Cartographic Vision, Joel Kovarsky charts the importance of geography and maps as foundational for Jefferson's lifelong pursuits as a philosopher, architect, astronomer, and polymath.
Exploration: a Very Short Introduction by Stewart A. Weaver
Call Number: Holland/Terrell Libraries G80 .W34 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-20
For as long as human societies have existed, people have felt the urge to venture outside of them, either in search of other societies or in search of new land or adventure. Exploration: A Very Short Introduction surveys this quintessential human impulse, tracing it from pre-history to the present, from east to west around the globe, and from the depths of volcanoes to the expanses of space.
Off the map : lost spaces, invisible cities, forgotten islands, feral places, and what they tell us about the world by Alastair Bonnett
Call Number: Holland & Terrell G70 .B66 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Going Places by Robert Burgin
Call Number: WSU Holland and Terrell G151 .B865 2013
ISBN: 9781598849721
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
"...The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing." --Publisher's summary
Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis by Patricia Demers (Editor); Miriam Green Ellis
Call Number: WSU Holland and Terrell PN4913.E44 A3 2013
ISBN: 9780888646262
Publication Date: 2012-11-01
"Demers revives the memory of journalist Miriam Green Ellis, an all-but-forgotten feminist, suffragist, and agricultural reporter who documented the modernist sphere for over four decades and who refused to be confined to the 'women's pages.'"--Publisher's summary
Walls : travels along the barricades by Marcello Di Cintio
Call Number: WSU Holland & Terrell NA493 .D52 2012
ISBN: 9780864926630
Publication Date: 2012
"Marcello Di Cintio travels to the world's most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire and answer the question: What does it mean to live against the walls?" --Publisher's summary
The Perilous West by Larry E. Morris
Call Number: WSU Holland & Terrell F880 .M67 2013
ISBN: 9781442211124
Publication Date: 2012-12-19
Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806... seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The Perilous West tells this riveting story in depth for the first time, focusing on each of the seven explorers in turn: Ramsey Crooks, Robert McClellan, John Hoback, Jacob Reznor, Edward Robinson, Pierre Dorion, and Marie Dorion.
Negotiating a River by Daniel Macfarlane
Publication Date: 2014-03-01
A megaproject half a century in the making, the planning and building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project is one of the defining episodes in North American history. Possibly the largest construction undertaking in Canadian history, and one of the most ambitious borderlands projects ever embarked upon by two countries, it also required decades of negotiation and the controversial relocation of thousands of people. Negotiating a River looks at the profound impacts of this megaproject, from the complex diplomatic negotiations, political manoeuvring, and environmental diplomacy to the implications on national identities and transnational relations.