a summary: all over the world, white men put lines on maps that destroyed cultures and exploited resources of those they considered "other", ruining the lives of millions over the course of decades and sometimes centuries

I came nearly a decade late to this book but it was fascinating nonetheless. frustratingly repetitive at times, but it's also not Marshall's fault that colonizers gonna colonize and therefore they come up in just about every chapter 

I think my favorite section was about the Arctic, since I knew the least about it, and now I'm curious to see how things have gone on up there since this book's publishing