Hi everybody, welcome to Dan's Nose Historyhood. Every softener book goes completely bonkers

and sells a million copies all around the world. That happened to the power of geography

by Tim Marshall. He was diplomat to get it through its sky news. He travelled the world. He

looked at the world's problems. He met participants in wars, crises all over the world, and he reflected

all this expertise he'd gathered in a book, Prisoners of Geography. It talked about just how

politics, demographics, our economies are determined by geography. It's not the first time we

talk about the subject on the podcast. I love going back into deep history of this planet,

trying to understand what is going on in the world. Then it was great to have Tim Marshall

on talking about his extraordinary success, his New York Times bestseller, his previous

book, and his new one coming out. More geography folks, there's plenty more geography where

that came from. If you want to watch documentaries or check out previous interviews I've done

on the same topic with people like Professor Lewis Darnal, please head over to historyhit.tv.

It's like Netflix, but just for history, it's a wonderful, wonderful resource growing all

the time. Tens of thousands of people subscribe, so thank you very much to all of you guys.

You can watch documentaries on there, listen to back episodes of this podcast, and all for

a tiny subscription, which is less than gin and tonic. You're about to buy because pubs

have now reopened. But in the meantime, everyone, enjoy Tim Marshall and me talking about geography.

Hello, Tim. Great to have you on the podcast. Greetings. We're not in America, but thank you

for having me. Greetings. Why did it think there's been such an

extraordinary, even joy to this extraordinary success talking about political geography?

Was it something that people, were we in our silos? The people that think about Oxbow

Lakes and Mountain Ranges weren't thinking about history and how things turn out?

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