ABSTRACT Responding to Wendy Bracewell’s work on travellee readers, this article examines how readers of eighteenth-century geography books – those I call the geo-graphed – responded to descriptions of their respective regions by foreign geographers. I focus on the case of geographer Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724–1793), author of the widely circulated and translated Neue Erdbeschreibung [New Earth Description] (1754–1792), an immense, descriptive geographical project that sought to order the Enlightenment globe for German-speaking and broader European publics. I discuss how readers in Switzerland, Great Britain and the German states responded to Büsching’s descriptions of their respective countries in his geography. I argue that critically “writing back” to such geographical descriptions was also a matter of co-producing knowledge of the globe, or “writing with”. Moreover, I contend that patriotic sentiment was central in shaping the responses of the geo-graphed.