Reader's Digest Illustrated World Atlas
Want to update your knowledge of today's world-and be able to share it with your children? Indulge your passion for travel-without ever leaving home? Or just enjoy a dazzling new view of planet Earth? The Illustrated World Atlas let's you do all that and more in one brand-new, magnificent, eye-opening volume.
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Want to update your knowledge of today's world-and be able to share it with your children? Indulge your passion for travel-without ever leaving home? Or just enjoy a dazzling new view of planet Earth? The Illustrated World Atlas let's you do all that and more in one brand-new, magnificent, eye-opening volume. Library Journal The editors of Reader's Digest have revised, updated, and expanded their 1997 Illustrated Great World Atlas, enhancing what was already an excellent value in moderately priced full-size world atlases. The new work reflects all of the most recent geopolitical changes, including recently independent East Timor and Serbia & Montenegro. European Map Graphics, Ltd., has replaced Rand McNally as the source of cartography, and the 95 mainly full-page topographical maps that make up most of the atlas feature breathtakingly dramatic terrain modeling in the use of color and shading for a truly 3-D effect. Beginning with Oceania, the sequence of maps moves westward, with sections for each continent preceded by two statistical and one political map. Five double fold-out maps spotlight regions with particularly interesting landscapes: the Yangtze River valley, the Himalayas, the Mediterranean basin, East Africa's Rift valley, and the Caribbean basin. Twenty-four introductory world thematic maps with illustrations and text explore topics ranging from demographics, flags, and economics to biodiversity and the environment. The index, which has been doubled in size, features more than 80,000 entries for countries, cities, and geographical features. Bottom Line This work could be called a gazetteer inasmuch as it includes profile boxes for each country with official name, area, capital, organizations, population growth rate, life expectancy, languages, literacy, currency, GDP, and per capita GDP. High quality and reasonable price make it an excellent choice for all libraries.-Edward K. Werner, St. Lucie Cty. Lib. Syst., Ft. Pierce, FL Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
\ Library JournalThe editors of Reader's Digest have revised, updated, and expanded their 1997 Illustrated Great World Atlas, enhancing what was already an excellent value in moderately priced full-size world atlases. The new work reflects all of the most recent geopolitical changes, including recently independent East Timor and Serbia & Montenegro. European Map Graphics, Ltd., has replaced Rand McNally as the source of cartography, and the 95 mainly full-page topographical maps that make up most of the atlas feature breathtakingly dramatic terrain modeling in the use of color and shading for a truly 3-D effect. Beginning with Oceania, the sequence of maps moves westward, with sections for each continent preceded by two statistical and one political map. Five double fold-out maps spotlight regions with particularly interesting landscapes: the Yangtze River valley, the Himalayas, the Mediterranean basin, East Africa's Rift valley, and the Caribbean basin. Twenty-four introductory world thematic maps with illustrations and text explore topics ranging from demographics, flags, and economics to biodiversity and the environment. The index, which has been doubled in size, features more than 80,000 entries for countries, cities, and geographical features. Bottom Line This work could be called a gazetteer inasmuch as it includes profile boxes for each country with official name, area, capital, organizations, population growth rate, life expectancy, languages, literacy, currency, GDP, and per capita GDP. High quality and reasonable price make it an excellent choice for all libraries.-Edward K. Werner, St. Lucie Cty. Lib. Syst., Ft. Pierce, FL Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \ \ \ \ School Library JournalGr 6 Up-This oversized atlas is packed with statistics, population and geographical information, and more. Throughout the volume, multiple, striking spreads preceding the regional and country maps present facts about biomes, technology, natural resources, politics, extremes, and flags, to name just a few of the topics. Each section of maps has an introduction to the continent that includes statistics and charts for birth rates, climate, and employment. Unfortunately, these special features are not listed in the index, which serves as a gazetteer to the maps included. The easy-to-read, easy-to-find maps (450-plus, including a number of foldouts) offer a wealth of information on political borders, physical features, major cities, land elevation, cultural features, and bodies of water. The bold graphic design is eye-pleasing, but occasionally busy when too much information is packed onto a spread. Nonetheless, students will find much to pore over here.-Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Maryland School for the Deaf, Columbia Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \
