The shelf
Reading
The books behind the lens — maritime history, the geography of chokepoints, and how institutions cohere and decay. Read slowly, on purpose.
- Finished
The Sea and Civilization
A maritime history of the world — the long argument that the sea, not the land, is the better vantage.
- Finished
Monsoon
The Indian Ocean as the map that matters for the century ahead.
- Reading
The Muqaddimah
On how institutions cohere and decay — read slowly, on purpose.
- Queued
The Geography of the Peace
Rimland theory — queued for the section on chokepoints.
Nothing on the shelf with that status yet.