Books from National Geographic Society

  • Defining a Nation: Our America and the Sources of Its Strength
    By David Halberstam

    Three hundred black-and-white and full-color illustrations complement a collection of varied essays by leading historians and writers that reflect on key issues that have shaped the American character.

  • Human Geography a Spatial Perspective AP Edition
    By Sarah Bendarz, Mark Bockenhauer, Fredrik Hiebert

    Human Geography A Spatial Perspective is designed specifically for high school AP students.

  • The United States: An Illustrated History
    By Ron Fisher

    ... Aldous 127 K Kamehameha , King ( Hawaii ) 10 Kansas 69 Kansas City , Missouri 92 Kansas Pacific Railroad 92 Karlsefni , Thorfinn Thorsdarrson 12 Kean , William B. 154 , 155 Kelley , Florence 122 Kelly , Tom 175 Kelly , William 96 ...

  • Britain
    By Nicole Swengley

    Britain

  • New York and Pennsylvania and New Jersey
    By National Geographic Society, Randall S. Peffer, Pete Souza

    New York and Pennsylvania and New Jersey

  • National Geographic Readers: Planes
    By Amy Shields

    ... 19, IanWaldie/ Bloomberg/ GettyImages; 21, Dwight Smith/ Shutterstock; 22, 24 Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Brandon Morris/ US Navy; 25, Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Milosz Reterski/ US Navy; 26, Gary Ell/ US Navy; ...

  • Guide to America's Outdoors: New England
    By Gary Ferguson, Michael Melford

    For New England, "nature adventures in parks, preserves, forests, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas"--Cover.

  • Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
    By Ann Bausum

    Offers the true account of two young men who took the risk to venture into the segregated South at the peak of the Civil Rights era to take part as Freedom Riders and fight for equality for all--making their mark and doing their part to ...

  • National Geographic Visual History of the World
    By Klaus Berndl

    The world history book to define all others, this visual encyclopedia of world events is a classic in the making--and a favorite of history buffs everywhere. No other volume offers...

  • Voyages to Paradise: Exploring in the Wake of Captain Cook
    By William R. Gray

    Traces the life and worldwide travels of the 18th-century English explorer Captain James Cook.

  • Yonder: A Place in Montana
    By John Heminway

    The acclaimed travel writer offers a compelling visual and written portrait of the great Western state, focusing the history of the Bar 20, the thirty-six-acre ranch he owns in Montana. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

  • National Geographic Guide to the National Parks of the United States
    By National Geographic Society

    Featuring 80 all new maps and more than 350 photos, this guide is the most comprehensive, up-to-the-minute book of its kind on the market today. A perennial favorite with almost...

  • Stand Out 2
    By Rob Jenkins, Staci Johnson

    The new edition of Stand Out, continues to provide students with the foundations and tools needed to achieve success in life, college, and career.

  • The Blue and the Gray
    By Thomas B. Allen

    Covers the Civil War chronologically and gives biographical sketches of key persons, with an accompanying map supplement.32103021366202

  • Life Upper-Intermediate Student's Book with App Code
    By John Hughes, Paul Dummett, Helen Stephenson

    Now in a new edition, National Geographic Learning brings the world to your classroom with Life, a six-level integrated-skills series with grammar and vocabulary for young adult and adult English language learners.

  • Earth and Space Science, 1st Edition
    By Jonathan Turk, Mark Hendrix, Graham R. Thompson

    Take Earth and Space Science instruction higher with the first ever high school program built with National Geographic content, images, and Explorers.

  • Golf's Golden Age: Robert T. Jones, Jr. and the Legendary Players of the '10s, '20s, and '30s
    By Randon Matthew Newman Jerris, United States Golf Association

    Here too are the great moments of epic matches, played out on the world's most challenging courses from St. Andrews to Pebble Beach. "This book is a literary treasure," says Arnold Palmer in his foreword, and he's right.

  • National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe
    By Roy A. Gallant

    Planet by planet, star after star, "Our Universe" takes you on an adventure that begins before people even knew the Earth was round and ends aboard shuttles and starships. Internationally...

  • Guide to Small Town Escapes
    By National Geographic Society

    America's most enticing small towns promise idyllic getaways in places that time forgot -- from colonial villages to Old West towns to sunny pueblos to salt-sprayed fishing hamlets. ...

  • America's Favorite National Parks
    By Michael Frome

    America's Favorite National Parks