Top 20 Best-Selling Geography Titles | Academic Best Sellers

A concise history of the Global Positioning System, an examination of the catastrophic bleaching affecting many of the world's coral reefs, and a treatise on why geography matters now more than ever top the list of best-selling books on geography, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

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A concise history of the Global Positioning System, an examination of the catastrophic bleaching affecting many of the world's coral reefs, and a treatise on why geography matters now more than ever top the list of best-selling books on geography, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

1. GPS
Ceruzzi, Paul E.
MIT Press. 2018. ISBN 9780262535953. $15.95.

2. Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink
Braverman, Irus
University of California Press. 2018. ISBN 9780520298842. $85.

3. Geography: Why It Matters
Murphy, Alexander B.
Polity Press. 2018. ISBN 9781509523009. $45.

4. Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo
Rapoport, Yossef
University of Chicago Press. 2018. ISBN 9780226540887. $55.

5. Digital Geographies
Ash, James
Sage Publications. 2019. ISBN 9781526447289. $120.

6. Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans
Rozwadowski, Helen M.
Reaktion Books. 2018. ISBN 9781780239972. $25.

7. Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture
Mackintosh, Will B.
New York University Press. 2019. ISBN 9781479889372. $35.

8. North Pole
Bravo, Michael
Reaktion Books. 2019. ISBN 9781789140088. $24.95.

9. Theater of the World: The Maps That Made History
Reinertsen Berg, Thomas
Little, Brown. 2018. ISBN 9780316450768. $35.

10. Bad Film Histories: Ethnography and the Early Archive
Groo, Katherine
University of Minnesota Press. 2019. ISBN 9781517900328. $112.

11. Evolution of Human Settlements: From Pleistocene Origins to Anthropocene Prospects
Bowen, William M.
Palgrave Macmillan. 2019. ISBN 9783319950334. $89.99.

12. Coral Reefs: Tourism, Conservation and Management
Prideaux , Bruce
Earthscan. 2018. ISBN 9781138689831. $150.

13. Cartographic Capital: Mapping Third Republic Paris, 1889-1934
Olson, Kory
Liverpool University Press. 2018. ISBN 9781786940964. $120.

14. Remapping Travel Narratives (1000-1700): To the East and Back Again
Piera, Montserrat
Arc Humanities Press. 2018. ISBN 9781942401599. $115.

15. Home, Nature and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire
Stratford, Elaine
Rowman & Littlefield International. 2019. ISBN 9781783485086. $150.

16. Time Geography in the Global Context: An Anthology
Ellegard, Kajsa
Routledge. 2019. ISBN 9781138573789. $140.

17. Beneath the Shadow: Legacy and Longing in the Antarctic
Gardiner, Justin
University of Georgia Press. 2019. ISBN 9780820354958. $24.95.

18. Tourism in Cuba: Casinos, Castros, and Challenges
Henthorne, Tony L.
Emerald Group Publishing. 2018. ISBN 9781787439030. $95.

19. Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
Palin, Michael
Greystone Books. 2018. ISBN 9781771644419. $28.

20. Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century
Ingleby, Matthew
Edinburgh University Press. 2018. ISBN 9781474435734. $110.

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