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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Fly in over Morocco and the first thing the country gives you is not a coast but a wall. The Atlas, white even in June, is thrown across the whole of the land's back like a closed door. Atlas Greaves follows that spine of rock from the Atlantic surf to...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Everyone knows Italy. Almost nobody knows what it is. It is a pier: seven hundred and fifty miles of land thrust into the middle of the most travelled sea on earth, with an island at its foot close enough to Africa to see the light on it. That position...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Netherlands is a country that had to build its own floor. A quarter of the Netherlands lies below the level of the sea, and almost all of it is below sea level because it was drained. Pump the water off a peat bog and the peat burns away into the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Peru is not a country you simply cross-it is one you climb. Stretching from one of the driest deserts on Earth to the frozen summits of the Andes before descending into the vast Amazon rainforest, Peru is a nation shaped by altitude. In Peru, Atlas...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A country where the ground has not finished arriving. Iceland is the one stretch of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that stands above water: a country sitting not on a tectonic plate but on the seam between two, being manufactured from below and torn apart from...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You come to Egypt expecting a country. You find a river. From the air, the Nile is a single stroke of green through a wasteland of sand-and along that stroke are the pyramids, the call to prayer, crowded cities, fertile fields, and the longest...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The ground gives little, and gives it on no schedule. Australia is the oldest, flattest and most weathered large landmass on earth. It sits in the middle of its tectonic plate: no collision zone, no young mountains, no glaciation, no volcanic renewal...