This beatutiful book is a lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them. Atlases are books that changed

Looking at the natural and human-made features on our planet, this book is organised by the world's seven continents. Each spread contains a computer-generated

Provides information about the geography of each of the continents, including landforms, bodies of water, climate, plants, animals, population, and flags, and a

Today we can walk into any well-stocked bookstore or library and find an array of historical atlases. The first thorough review of the source material, Historic

An atlas of the United States, including U.S. highway and state maps.