Paperback Edition
Philip's 'Atlas of the World' provides balanced coverage of the world at well-chosen scales, plus an information-packed colourful 32 page 'The World in Focus' - ideal for home reference or school project use.
Political maps for each continent show national boundaries, highlight the size of each country in relation to its neighbours, and mark provincial centres and capital cities. Diagrams, charts, graphs and tables explain the fundamentals of human geography and compare nation with nation on key themes such as population, language, religion, politics and the environment. The index uses local spellings, and includes geographical features such as mountains, lakes and deserts, as well as towns, cities, provinces and countries.
'Atlas of the World' features:
- a scale bar that allows you to measure distances accurately in both miles and kilometres, and gives the scale of each map;
- a locator map that shows the exact coverage of each page and indicates the page numbers for maps of neighbouring regions;
- layer-colouring: altitude is shown by contour colour-banding and hill-shading to give a stunning visual impression of the Earth surface;
- letter figure grid which complements latitude and longitude, and makes name-finding via the index as simple as with a road atlas.
- 96 pages of superb new world maps.
