Prisoners of Geography:Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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“Prisoners of Geography:Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics” by Tim Marshall

Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than thirty years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News and before that worked for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from forty countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. He is the author of Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World; The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World; and A Flag Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of National Symbols. He is founder and editor of the current affairs site TheWhatandtheWhy.com.

Spread over ten chapters–covering Russia, China, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, India and Pakistan, Europe, Japan and Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic–using maps, essays and occasionally the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, [this book] looks at the past, present, and future to offer [a] … guide to one of the major determining factors in world history.