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Book of the Month: Prisoners of Geography The Quiz Book

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.

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An extract from ‘The Power of Geography’ by Tim Marshall

Tim Marshall’s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed. But the world has.

In this revelatory new book The Power of Geography, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry: Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey, the Sahel, Ethiopia, Spain and Space.

Delivered with Marshall’s trademark wit and insight, this is a lucid and gripping exploration of the power of geography to shape humanity’s past, present – and future.

We are honoured to have an extract from the Australia chapter to share with you:

Tim Marshall: The Inside Story of Europe’s Last War: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2020

The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its bloody conclusion in Kosovo in 1999. Tim Marshall, then diplomatic editor at Sky News, was on the ground covering the Kosovo War. He gives an illuminating account of how events unfolded, drawing on personal experience, eyewitness accounts, and interviews with intelligence officials from five countries.

Shadowplay by Tim Marshall

Divided: Why We’re Living in an Age of Walls with Tim Marshall: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2019

Informed by 30 years commenting on world affairs, Tim Marshall’s illuminating explanations of global politics made Prisoners of Geography an international bestseller. In his latest book Divided he brings that wealth of experience and insight to explain what has divided us, past and present, showing how it informs much of what is going on in the world today.
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Tim Marshall, The Power and Politics of Flags // Stanfords Travel Writers

What is the origin of the ISIS flag? Why are so many African flags red, yellow and green? Sunday Times bestselling author Tim Marshall will be here to discuss his latest book, revealing the histories, the power and the politics of the symbols that unite us – and divide us: flags. Continue reading Tim Marshall, The Power and Politics of Flags // Stanfords Travel Writers

The Politics of Geography – Tim Marshall, Nick Middleton and Anna Reid with Julia Wheeler

Tim Marshall, Nick Middleton and Anna Reid speak to Julia Wheeler about the role that maps play in our sense of national identity, the historical significance of state boundaries, and whether there really is such a thing as a country anyway.

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