Looking for good living geography books

If you haven’t read Richard Haliburton’s Complete Book of Marvels, I’d heartily recommend that. One of our all-time favorites. There’s another one of his…Conquering New Worlds?? Not sure without checking my bookshelf. He actually has a number of books, but quite a few may contain passages that are a little risque.

The Holling C. Holling books are very good, too.

Hungry Planet and Material World by Peter Menzel are very good also. We like to read about the families if their country is part of our map studies. It gives us a personal connection with the countries to read about normal families of today. 

Keep looking, I just snagged a copy for a friend from someone here for $25. Here’s a link to one for $25 – http://www.alibris.com/Richard-Halliburton-s-complete-book-of-marvels-Richard-Halliburton/book/5753181

I don’t have much time at the moment, but check out some reviews on

http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Halliburtons-Complete-Book-Marvels/dp/051736770X and

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252454.Richard_Halliburton_s_Complete_Book_of_Marvels

see the TOC here – http://www.lucylearns.com/richard-halliburtons-complete-book-of-marvels-chapter-guide-the-occident.html

I started making a squidoo page for links for the chapters. I’d love to finish it at some point. a joint project would be nice – http://www.squidoo.com/complete-book-of-marvels-geography-study