Earth Shapers - How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World

For many of us, geography has an inexorable quality. Brimming with real and imaginary objects like mountains, oceans, and borders, our world seems quite literally set in stone. But over time, we have become experts at reshaping our surroundings, both through ingenuity and brute force. From the Qhapaq Nan, South America''s ''Great Road'', to the Panama Canal; from Mozambique''s railways to Korea''s sacred Baekdu-daegan mountain range, Samson explores how humans have etched our needs onto the natural landscape, and in doing so, changed the very course of history. A sweeping work that touches on ecology, sociology, history and politics, Earth Shapers argues that, far from being prisoners to the inevitability of geography, we are instead fundamental and intrinsic to it.

Product details

• Authors: Maxim Samson, Maxim Samson
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 07.08.2025
• EAN: 9781800815230
• ISBN: 978-1-80081-523-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 244 mm x 44 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > General, dictionaries; Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Social Geography, General & world history, General and world history, Human Geography