 | Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival by Yossi Ghinsberg
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £16.64 I know I was born in the Amazon so am biased, but just read the reviews. How is it that we fail to switch kids on to Geography when there's stuff like this out there...?
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 | Surviving Extremes by Nick Middleton
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £1.50 TV progs were AMAZING. I want to base a Year 9 course on them - if I can get Producers to play ball
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 | Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 (DVD and book) Stimulate your hunger for adventure - but perhaps not for Mongolian food (e.g. mixed animal testicle soup)
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 | GCSE Geography: Revision Guide (Revision Guides) by Richard Parsons
Buy new: £4.28 / Used from: £0.01 The best revision book - and don't believe that rubbish about not having the detail - just becuase it is fun and jokey, people seem to think it hasn't got the content - but it has
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 | AS Geography: Revision Guide by Richard Parsons
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.43 CGP's AS book - clear, accurate, thorough (I know teachers who use this to learn any new stuff - don't you, Janet??!)
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 | Earth from Space by Andrew K. Johnston
Buy used from: £8.00 If only more people were more aware of the incredible planet we live on...
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 | Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Buy new: £6.67 / Used from: £2.99 Only this low in my list becuase I know it reflects my personal political bias
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 | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Buy used from: £8.32 OK, so a bit 'stodgy', but fascinating, authoratitive insight
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 | Understanding Earth by John Grotzinger
Buy new: £36.58 / Used from: £13.33 The book my university Geology tutors told us to read to get a good wide understanding (updated version, obviously!)
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 | Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy
Buy new: £31.50 / Used from: £33.18 ...which reminds me of this - THE definitive book on sedimentary rocks (with lots of value to Geography teachers on the underlying phyiscal geography), written by.... my tutor!
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 | The Physical Geography of the Landscape by Roy Collard
Buy new: £39.99 / Used from: £0.32 All I needed to know for teachng A-level Physical Geography - an authoritative source, unlike Waugh etc.
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 | World Travel Atlas by David Burles
Buy new: £61.67 / Used from: £20.12 Not your average atlas
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![Apocalypto [Blu-ray] [2007] [US Import]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eNalKN2kL._SL75_.jpg) | Apocalypto [Blu-ray] [2007] [US Import]
Buy used from: £12.55 Apocalypto by Mel Gibson - Film / DVD - some great rainforest Geography in there - shame you can't show people ripping hearts out of living humans to Year 9!
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![Savage Earth [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LkanIPzRL._SL75_.jpg) | Savage Earth [1998]
Buy used from: £20.42 Great on natural disasters etc. - don't show your students boring BBC / Ch4 videos with geeky teachers (or worse, Eliot Brown, the producer's pompous son, whilst still a 6th former)
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