What a great year in Books of the Month we’ve had. It seemed fitting that our final Book of the Month for 2024 was one of our favourite authors with a book that would make a great gift. Our Book of the Month for December is Tim Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography The Quiz Book.
Do you know your continents from your countries, your landmarks from your latitudes, your mountain ranges from your rivers? Put your geographical and political knowledge to the test and discover your geography IQ with bestselling geopolitical author Tim Marshall.
Covering every area of the globe, Prisoners of Geography: The Quiz Book tests your trivia with a variety of questions, puzzles, word games and maps, designed to challenge you whilst expanding your world knowledge.
Based on the #1 Sunday Times and internationally bestselling Prisoners of Geography.
Can you answer all five questions correctly? (Answers below)
1. Which river begins in the Himalayas and ends in the Bay of Bengal?
2. Can you find the name of a zone in Europe in the anagram below?
CHASE NEAR GEN
3. How many time zones are there at the North Pole? 8 or 24?
4. Is Mars hotter or colder than Earth?
5. Australia is the driest continent on the planet, true or false?
ANSWERS:
1. The Ganges 2. Schengen Area 3. 24 4. Colder 5. False, it’s Antarctica
Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. He is the author of the No. 1 Sunday Times bestsellers Prisoners of Geography, The Power of Geography and The Future of Geography; the illustrated edition of Prisoners of Geography, shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year; as well as Divided; Worth Dying For; and Shadowplay.
