PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY: TEN MAPS THAT TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GLOBAL POLITICS

Book ID/图书代码： 04320314B74220

English Summary/英文概要： All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements… but if you don’t know geography, you’ll never have the full picture.

To understand Putin’s actions, for example, it is essential to consider that, to be a world power, Russia must have a navy. And if its ports freeze for six months each year then it must have access to a warm water port – hence, the annexation of Crimea was the only option for Putin. To understand the Middle East, it is crucial to know that geography is the reason why countries have logically been shaped as they are – and this is why invented countries (e.g. Syria, Iraq, Libya) will struggle as nation states.

In ten maps, covering Russia; China; the USA; Latin America; the Middle East; Africa; India and Pakistan; Europe; Japan and Korea; and Greenland and the Arctic, Tim Marshall explains in clear and engaging terms the complex geo-political strategies of the world powers. Shining a light on the unavoidable physical realities that shape all of our aspirations and endeavours, this is an essential guide to one of the major determining factors in world history.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 所有领导人都受制于地理学。他们能选择的无非是山脉，河流，海洋和水泥。要想了解一个国家你得先了解那里的人民，他们的思想和行为，这点没有错。但如果你对地理一无所知的话，那你看到的也不是一个国家的全貌。

拿普金来说，俄罗斯作为一个世界强国，它必须拥有一支海军部队。但如果俄的港口一年中有一半时间是处于结冰状态的呢？这就是俄罗斯为什么一定要吞并克罗米亚的原因，俄必须拥有一个处于温暖水域的港口。再举中东的例子，地理地貌是国家被划分的重要依据，这也是为什么叙利亚，伊拉克，利比亚等国要努力成为民族国家的原因。

书中的十张地图涵盖了俄罗斯，中国，美国，拉美，中东，非洲，印度和巴基斯坦，欧洲，日本和韩国，格陵兰岛和北极。作者提姆•马歇尔结合地图用简单有趣的语言解释了世界强国复杂的地缘政治战略。通过此书，读者将会了解世界历史中一个起决定性作用的因素——地理。（XAT）

Awards/获奖情况：Quite simply, one of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine: reading it is like having a light shone on your understanding... Marshall is clear-headed, lucid and possessed of an almost uncanny ability to make the broad picture accessible and coherent ... the book is, in a way which astonished me, given the complexities of the subject, unputdownable... I can’t think of another book that explains the world situation so well’ – Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard

‘Sharp insights into the way geography shapes the choices of world leaders’ – Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

‘Marshall’s latest book explains how politics is nothing without geography, in his crisp and compelling style ... What he really excels at is capturing the psychology of nations and giving maps a power that politicians must tame’ – Top Ten Holiday Reads – Dan Lewis, Stanfords, WorldTravelGuide.net

‘Shows the ways geography shapes not just history but human destiny... In an ever more complex, chaotic and interlinked world, Prisoners of Geography is a concise and useful primer on geopolitics. Marshall is not afraid to ask tough questions and provide sharp answers’ – Adam LeBor, Newsweek

About the Author/作者介绍： 提姆•马歇尔是《天空新闻》的外交编辑。他是外交事务的权威性人物，曾报道过克罗地亚，波斯尼亚，马其顿，科索沃，阿富汗，伊拉克，黎巴嫩和以色列的战争新闻，三届美国总统的选举。他的博客“国外那点事儿”入围了2010年度奥威尔奖，提姆还凭借对阿富汗战争的报道获得了2004年RTS新闻奖提名，在2004年纽约节中凭借纪录片《沙漠王国》入围，2007年凭借对穆斯林游击队员的报道再次入围。提姆的作品《皮影》描述了科索沃战争和米洛舍维奇被推翻的历史，此书是塞尔维亚的畅销书。他的作品还有《肮脏的北国畜生》和《梯田的神话：英国的足球赞歌》。

Tim Marshall is Diplomatic Editor of Sky News. He is a leading authority on foreign affairs and has reported from 30 countries, including the wars in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Israel, and has covered three US Presidential elections. His blog Foreign Matters was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2010. In 2004, Tim was a finalist in the RTS News Event category for his Iraq War coverage, and was a finalist at the New York Festival in 2004 for his documentary The Desert Kingdom and in 2007 for a report on the Mujahideen. He is the author of Shadowplay, a chronicle of the Kosovo War and the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, which was a bestseller in Serbia, and “Dirty Northern B*st*rds!” And Other Tales from the Terraces: The Story of Britain’s Football Chants (E&T, 2014).

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