The Power of Geography

Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Politics of Place)

By: Tim Marshall

Narrated by: Tim Marshall

Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

From the author of the New York Times best seller Prisoners of Geography, a fascinating, “refreshing, and very useful” (The Washington Post) follow-up that uses 10 maps to explain the challenges to today’s world powers and how they presage a volatile 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. Since then, the geography hasn’t changed, but the world has.

Now, in this “wonderfully entertaining and lucid account, written with wit, pace, and clarity” (Mirror, UK), Marshall takes us into 10 regions set to shape global politics. 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.

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). 

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Insightful, informative, and entertaining.

Even without the associated maps, one can coordinate all of the chapters with a quick tap on any search engine. Or just listen as the author weaves a tapestry of distinct minds eye pictures of how each developing country’s leaders work to build and/or defend their place on earth. Great book!!

Mankind is responsible for our future.

It is a fresh look at a world waking up from history to find history is still here.

Very well written

This book is very well written, quite informative and the narration was equally very good.

A basic overview of geopolitics.

Read by the author this book is a basic overview of the current geopolitical situation. Could have been more in depth but this easy listen was a nice intro into a select few countries and there role on the world stage.

The power of geography

A fascinating book. I enjoyed it. Only wish it was read by a professional reader for clarity and more pleasant voice.

A great sequel to the first installment

Simply said, this book brings together the history and geopolitics that has come to shape the world we live in. It helps one to look out and understand why hostilities exist in different regions, and why they may continue to exist. It gives us a glimpse of what our world could be as the geographic landscape slowly changes due to climate change and how their politics will evolve.

Ten regional or country-focused vignettes

This is guaranteed to teach you things you didn't know or fully appreciate about the ten countries/regions he wrote about. It puts each in an interesting and sweeping historical, geopolitical perspective and context. And Mr. Marshall does a very good job with his own material (sounds a bit like Mehdi Hasan)

Weird Spanish

It's a great book, like Prisioners of Geography. I've enjoyed and learned a lot.
Amazon might offer Tim Marshall a sth to improve his Spanish pronunciation! He moves between Italian and French in a way that is hilarious, if it weren't incomprehensible, for a case, I understood three times "gorila" for "guerrilla".

Must read

If you want a quick concise read on what is really going on in the world this is a must read.

Good intro to geopolitics

Good and interesting review of select geopolitical boundaries from 2020. Not earth-shattering analysis, and mostly redundant if you’ve read any of Peter Zeihan’s works, but a good review of some history and some consideration for geographical areas you may not have considered.