
Ari Turunen has written 11 non-fiction books. His books have been translated to 11 different languages. Turunen is the most translated non-fiction writer in Finland. His books reveal in a hilarious way why we behave like we do. They offer a witty – and occasionally blunt –Nordic view to cultural and global history. One of his books Brute Force tells the story of the world class icebreakers for which Finland is renown.
- World spins around us
- On the navel of the world
- Babylonian world map (7th century BCE)
- Greek world map (6th century BCE)
- Roman world map (12 BCE)
- Arab world (1154)
- Medieval psalter map (1250)
- Buddhist world view (1364)
- Catalan world map (1450)
- World maps from Alexandria: Ptolemy (150 and 1482)
- World map of Martin Waldseemuller (1507)
- Chinese world maps (1532 and 1611)
- Mercator’s projection (1569)
- World map of four elements (1633)
- Theaters of the world (1570 and 1620)
- Japanese world map (1645)
- Map of the British Empire (1886)
- American world map
- World map of Soviet Union (1947)
- Gall-Peters projection (1972)
- Chinese world map (1998)
- Australian view (1992)
- The world map of the government of New Zealand
- The best world map?
- Prisoners of the world views
Ari Turunen

Ari Turunen is a Finnish writer and science editor. He is a Licentiate of Social Sciences and his thesis was a about the politics of different world maps and world views.
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