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Title: Times Atlas of the World : Comprehensive Edition by London Times ISBN: 0-8129-3265-X Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 13 October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $250.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Expensive, but worth it
Comment: If, like me, you love and can spend hours poring over a map, then the Times Atlas will blow you away. A massive heavy tome (well it maps the whole earth after all!), it is meant to be laid flat on the carpet while the reader sprawls on his / her stomach to browse. The most important thing about an Atlas, apart from accuracy, is that it should be up to date and the Times scores high here. The maps are large, the colors gentle and easy on the eye, the print quality is superb. Some of the text is sadly a bit small for my aging eyes but the maps, which most readers will concentrate on are top notch. Perhaps a bit expensive for home usage, though I like to think that this one is a keeper; you need to amortise its cost over a decade or more. Small businesses and homes with growing children wanting to learn about the world will love this book. Worth a splurge.
Rating: 5
Summary: The finest printed world atlas available today.
Comment: Almost every new major atlas claims to set a new standard in world atlases, but this new atlas is one of the very few that actually do just that. It contains almost 30% more place names than its nearest competitor, the Rand McNally International Atlas. In this respect, it is the largest printed atlas ever published. This tenth edition (dubbed the "millennium" edition) is the first complete redesign since its original publication in 1967, and it shows. The color coding has improved, the number of maps has increased, and, very important, the consistency factor has improved; e.g. the same fonts and same accuracy for all pages. The previous edition has sometimes been accused of being a mere "collection of reference maps". In this new tenth, no less than 72 pages of thematic content have been added, thus making it a really all-round reference atlas. It also contains more large-scale reference maps of more densely populated regions than before, and this noticeably increases the chance of finding just the spot you were looking for. The 217-page gazetteer contains just over 200,000 names. The price is somewhat spend lightly. But to anyone committed to following the world news, planning holiday or business trips, or travellers-in-dreams, you really can't afford NOT to have this atlas - it's certainly worth its price.
Rating: 4
Summary: Heavy, Expensive and with lots of small print . . .
Comment: You will need a magnifying glass for the very small print. I nearly strained my back lifting the book after it was delivered. But, the world is a heavy thing. I like the book because I can look up back-water places in every puny little country in every nook and cranny on this old Earth of ours. It is also a good prop-up under my old feather pillow, as I need something large and firm. Plus, it's kind of nice to know the world in right underneath my pillow. I sometimes dream of far away places that I visited as a boy. My father was a traveler who inherited a great deal of money and little common sense. He lugged us three kids around while my mother complained about food, coarse bed linens and bugs.
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Title: National Geographic Atlas Of The World 7th Edition by National Geographic ISBN: 0792275284 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $150.00 |
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Title: DK Atlas of World History by Jeremy Black ISBN: 078944609X Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Great World Atlas by Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Andrew Heritage ISBN: 0789489317 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $100.00 |
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Title: Atlas of the World (ATLAS OF THE WORLD) by Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195219864 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $80.00 |
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Title: Columbia Encyclopedia by Paul Lagasse, Lora Goldman, Archie Hobson, Susan R. Norton, Columbia University, Columbia University Press ISBN: 0787650153 Publisher: Gale Group Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $135.00 |
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