who wrote first books about world geography?
History of Geography. In Ancient Greece, Eratosthenes is credited to have been the person who coined the word geography. The first books on the subject were thought to be Homer's Iliad and The Odyssey. Thales the philosopher is credited with laying the foundation for the study of geography. But all these were preceded by the ancient Babylonians who made the first world maps in the 9th Century BC.