Short description
Contains over 200 pages of mapping, which takes you from an overview of the whole world, through portraits of the continents to a picture of the world's countries and regions. The maps in this atlas show how humans have moulded the land for their own needs, built towns and cities, and the highways, roads and railways that link them.
Long description
Reader's Digest Atlas of the World will keep you up to date with our ever-changing world. Page after page of giant maps provide maximum clarity and detail. This atlas contains over 200 pages of entirely new mapping, which takes you from an overview of the whole world, through portraits of the continents to a detailed picture of all the world's countries and regions. The maps have been designed to do full justice to the sheer variety of the Earth's landscape, with detailed terrain modelling and colouring. They also show how humans have moulded the land for their own needs, built towns and cities, and the highways, roads and railways that link them. All the information in the maps can be simply reached through a detailed Gazetteer, with more than 90,000 places named and referenced, and brief statistical profiles of all the world's countries. The Reader's Digest Atlas of the World is a fresh new way of exploring our exciting world and an invaluable source of information for both young and old.