No title The Trivia Lover's Guide to Even More of the World : geography for the global generation /
Fuller, Gary, 1941-
The Trivia Lover's Guide to Even More of the World : geography for the global generation / Gary Fuller. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. - xv, 205 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm
Includes index.
Geographic ignorance still prevails -- Why can my students find Australia on a map -- Place names: pronunciations and translations -- Borders and boundaries -- Islands -- Battles -- Airports -- The British Empire -- Missionaries: agents of geographical change -- Nearest neighbors -- Explorers rescued from oblivion -- Diseases -- Population density -- Fleets -- Spice-seekers -- Principal (rare) products -- Pirates -- Imaginary/mythical/legendary places -- Deep in the heart of -- World population -- Other populations -- Dangerous watery places -- Forced migration -- Forbidden places -- Earthquakes and tsunamis -- Extreme points -- Minerals and mines -- Landscapes of fear.
9781442235656 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2014039781
Geography--Miscellanea.
910/ F965g
The Trivia Lover's Guide to Even More of the World : geography for the global generation / Gary Fuller. - Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. - xv, 205 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm
Includes index.
Geographic ignorance still prevails -- Why can my students find Australia on a map -- Place names: pronunciations and translations -- Borders and boundaries -- Islands -- Battles -- Airports -- The British Empire -- Missionaries: agents of geographical change -- Nearest neighbors -- Explorers rescued from oblivion -- Diseases -- Population density -- Fleets -- Spice-seekers -- Principal (rare) products -- Pirates -- Imaginary/mythical/legendary places -- Deep in the heart of -- World population -- Other populations -- Dangerous watery places -- Forced migration -- Forbidden places -- Earthquakes and tsunamis -- Extreme points -- Minerals and mines -- Landscapes of fear.
9781442235656 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2014039781
Geography--Miscellanea.
910/ F965g