This page brings together free online books, topic searches and Open Access resources related to geography, cartography, map-making, atlases, surveying, exploration, and the history and practice of mapping. The materials range from older public domain works to modern scholarly studies.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
The section below Topics provides links to related modern Open Access books. See that section for more information.
Topics – Geography Books and Textbooks in English PDF
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related cartography and geography. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable books, periodicals, and other documents. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by year, language, or related subjects.
- Aerial photography in geography
- Agricultural geography
- Ancient Geography
- Arts and geography
- Atlases
- Biogeography
- Buddhist geography
- Cadastres
- Cartography
- Cartography – Computer programs
- Christianity and geography
- Classification – Books – Geography
- Commercial geography
- Communication and geography
- Communication in geography
- Discoveries in geography
- Earth Sciences
- Economic geography
- Environmental geography
- Exploration
- Gazetteers
- Geodatabases
- Geodesy
- Geographers
- Geographic information science
- Geographic Information systems
- Geographic Names
- Geographical Myths
- Geography – Dictionaries
- Geography – Early works to 1800
- Geography – History
- Geography – Mathematics
- Geography – Methodology
- Geography – Research
- Geography – Societies, etc.
- Geography – Statistical methods
- Geography – Study and teaching
- Geography – Terminology
- Geography – Textbooks
- Geography – Vocational guidance
- Geography Dictionaries
- Geography General
- Geography libraries
- Geography projects
- Geography teachers
- Geography Textbooks
- Geography, Ancient
- Geography, Arab
- Geography, Medieval
- Geomorphology
- Geopolitics
- Geospatial data
- Historical geographic information systems
- Historical geography
- Human geography
- India Geography
- Law and geography
- Libraries – Special collections – Geography
- Local geography
- Lunar geography
- Maps
- Mathematical geography
- Medical geography
- Military geography
- Mobile geographic information systems
- Music and geography
- Natural Disasters
- Naval art and science – Effect of geography on
- Parapsychology and geography
- Photography in geography
- Physical geography
- Phytogeography
- Planetary geographic information systems
- Political Geography Boundaries
- Religion and geography
- Rural geography
- Spatial data infrastructures
- Spatial data mining
- Surveying
- Transportation geography
- United States Geography
- Urban geography
- Virtual reality in geography
- Voyages and travels
Cartography Books
Open Access Geography Books and Textbooks PDF Free Download
The Open Access books and other materials below are modern works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other organizations. Many reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can also be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
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