For many of us geography has an inexorable quality. Brimming with real and imaginary objects
like mountains oceans and borders our world seems quite literally set in stone. But over
time we have become experts at reshaping our surroundings both through ingenuity and brute
force. From the Qhapaq Ñan South America's 'Great Road' to the Panama Canal from
Mozambique's railways to Korea's sacred Baekdu-daegan mountain range Samson explores how
humans have etched our needs onto the natural landscape and in doing so changed the very
course of history. A sweeping work that touches on ecology sociology history and politics
Earth Shapers argues that far from being prisoners to the inevitability of geography we are
instead fundamental and intrinsic to it.