The shelf
Reading
The books behind the lens — maritime history, the geography of chokepoints, and how institutions cohere and decay. Read slowly, on purpose.
Now reading
[Current book] — update when reading begins.
- Queued
The Sea and Civilization
The single best history of how the sea has made the world, not the other way around.
- Queued
Monsoon
The model for reading a region through its water, not its capitals.
- Reading
The Muqaddimah
The oldest continuous framework I know for reading civilisational cycles.
- Queued
The Geography of the Peace
The foundational text for reading the Rimland — which is most of the sea I care about.
Nothing on the shelf with that status yet.