• Prisoners of Geography

  • Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
  • By: Tim Marshall
  • Narrated by: Ric Jerom
  • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (156 ratings)

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Prisoners of Geography

By: Tim Marshall
Narrated by: Ric Jerom
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All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture.

If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obsessed with Crimea, why the USA was destined to become a global superpower or why China's power base continues to expand ever outwards, the answers are all here. In 10 chapters (covering Russia, China, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, India and Pakistan, Europe, Japan and Korea, and the Arctic), using essays and occasionally the personal experiences of the widely travelled author, Prisoners of Geography looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential insight into one of the major factors that determines world history. It's time to put the 'geo' back into geopolitics.

©2016 Tim Marshall (P)2017 Audible, Ltd.

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Brilliant insight and narration

One of the most enjoyable audible narrators.
The book is both a good and easy read. It links well known global historical facts to world geography that explain world politics of today. I highly recommend for readers who are not majorly involved in politics, but would like to start understanding them.

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Disappointed

I read the chapters on Russia and China with earnest and thought wow! I've learn quite a few things here. Then I skipped to the chapter on Africa and immediately changed my view. Like sooo many other writers on Africa, the continent is described with one overriding narrative: a war torn, conflict stricken land. Africa is AND the about the civil war in the DRC and previous fighting in Angola, Rwanda and Burundi. There is more to African economies than South Africa. For me, the limited scope in the one chapter on Africa was a strong indication of the flawed views the writer took in all the other chapters, so I stopped listening after that. Disappointed.

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A very biased american view on the world

Interesting view on geopolitics though it is a very biased american view on the world

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No PDF maps

Great book and well narrated. But I simply can’t understand how audible would not include the maps from the hard copy as an accompanying pdf. This is one book that absolutely needs a pdf to go with it.
Audible please fix this.

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Why Nations Act The Way They Do

Tim Marshal is the Tim Lahaye of Geopolitics.


I enjoyed listening to his takes and also find it quite helpful

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Amazing Book

This book has made me more keen on today's geopolitics. So damn interesting. Well done.

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Great narrating

Ric Jerome placed much enthasis on the correct local pronunciation of all the different locations.

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