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Don't Know Much About Geography

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by Kenneth C. Davis
Kenneth C. Davis
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From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a treasure trove of answers to questions about our world.
Was there an Atlantis?
What's the smallest country in the world?
What's the difference between a jungle and a rain forest?
Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About® History, Don't Know Much About® the Civil War and Don't Know Much About® the Bible, turns his inimitable wit and wide-ranging knowledge to the subject of geography, and proves once and for all that there is a lot more to it than labeling countries on a map.
From often amusing perceptions people have had through the ages about the world and the universe to the changing map of today, Davis shows how geography is really a great crossroad of many fields: biology, meteorology, astronomy, history, economics, and even politics. In this lively, entertaining, and endlessly fascinating presentation, you'll hear about the personalities that helped shape the world and learn the answers to questions that have vexed most of us since grade school. Along the way, Davis offers an affectionate ode to the earth: a celebration of the earth, a searching investigation of the destruction of our habitat, and a practical guide to saving our home planet.
For anyone who has felt geographically ignorant ever since gas stations stopped handing out free maps, Don't Know Much About® Geography is enormously informative entertainment.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Don't Know Much About

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 21, 2013

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780385363518
      • File size: 367983 KB
      • Duration: 12:46:37

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 1290
    • Text Difficulty: 10-12

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This may as well be titled "Geography for the Determinedly Ignorant and Naive." Davis takes third-grade ideas and slants them toward faddish political rectitude: capitalists, Republicans and Caucasians are bad; environmentalists, socialists and unionizers are good. He narrates the introductions himself, and we are fairly warned; his voice is appropriately pedagogical--he sounds like a college sophomore. Mercifully, he turns the tapes over to a competent narrator, who is asked vapid questions by three or four stand-ins, one of whom sounds like Davis himself. Anyone with the faintest knowledge of the field will listen with gritted teeth. D.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 1, 1993
      This entertaining, copious guide should help to remedy American readers' lack of geographical literacy.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 28, 1992
      The author of the successful Don't Know Much About History returns to correct his countrymen's lack of knowledge about geography, a lack established when Americans aged 18 to 24 scored lowest on a 1988 test of geographic literacy given to young people of all industrialized nations. Davis writes with an entertaining, breezy touch and encompasses such interesting considerations as the origin of the belief in a race of Amazons. Besides essential geographic information, chapters cover the history of geographical studies, an overview of large cities of the past and present, the effect of climate on developing civilizations and astronomy. Helpful lists, ranging from glossaries to current and former names of countries and U.N. membership are included. Davis's eminently readable treatise should help remedy an ignorance that has even been discussed in the U.S. Senate. Author tour.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:1290
  • Text Difficulty:10-12

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