A Journey to Lake Baikal
An excerpt from Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal.
An excerpt from Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal.
An excerpt about rail travel through the Andes from Jason Wilson’s The Andes: A Cultural History.
Vojtech Novotny, author of Notebooks from New Guinea, writes about a medical emergency in the village where he was researching.
An excerpt from Weighing the World.
A fond farewell to Place of the Week.
Ben looks at inaugural geography.
Ben looks at robots and geography.
Ben’s place of the week is Talkeetna, Alaska.
Ben presents us with an holiday ode to mapping.
How Polar Bears can help cure diabetes.
Ben’s place of the week.
Khurais: The largest exporter of oil with over 20 percent of the world’s reserves, Saudi Arabia occupies roughly three quarters of the peninsula of arid land between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. As of 2007, this desert kingdom was producing approximately 11 million barrels of petroleum daily.
Ben’s place of the week is Venice, Italy.
Ben’s place of the week is Batman, Turkey.
Harm de Blij reflects on the importance of National Geography Awareness Week.
Welcome to ‘Geography Awareness week’ – the perfect time to announce another ‘Place of the Year’! In all honesty, I really struggled with my decision this time, and sought the advice of several mapmakers and geographers. Looking back on 2008 – I found it difficult to settle on a single location.