Innovative, compelling, and delivered with Marshall’s trademark wit and insight, this is “an immersive blend of history, economics, and political analysis that puts geography at the center of human affairs” ( Publishers Weekly). Find out why US interest in the Middle East will wane why Australia is now beginning an epic contest with China how Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the UK are cleverly positioning themselves for greater power why Ethiopia can control Egypt and why Europe’s next refugee crisis looms closer than we think, as does a cutting-edge arms race to control space. Now, in this “wonderfully entertaining and lucid account, written with wit, pace, and clarity” ( Mirror, UK), Marshall takes us into ten regions set to shape global politics.
Overall Rating: 4 (out of 5) Worldview/moral value: 3. Consideration: The author takes an evolutionary view of how landmasses formed and when their populations appeared. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed, but the world has. Overall, though, Prisoners of Geography is a useful survey of lands and peoples that will help to provide a background to events taking place in the world, now and in the future. Tim Marshall’s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography offered us a “fresh way of looking at maps” ( The New York Times Book Review), showing how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and walls.
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” ( The Washington Post) follow-up that uses ten maps to explain the challenges to today’s world powers and how they presage a volatile future.
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