Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way by Maxim Samson homemade "No essay in fiction ever

"No essay in fiction ever gave more incontestable assurance of genius

Alongside Maria Nilsson's green-ink illustrations

and Annabelle Wallis

"This wonderful book demonstrates that art is essential for health

and peace by prompting them to engage thoughtfully and contemplatively with the natural world

Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way by Maxim Samson homemade "No essay in fiction everThe globetrotting story of how humans have harnessed the geographical landscape and written ourselves onto our surroundings. Mountains, meridians, rivers, and borders these are some of the features that divide the world on our maps and in our minds. But geography is far less set in stone than we might believe, and, as Maxim Samson's Earth Shapers contends, in our relatively short time on this planet, humans have become experts at fundamentally