With one hundred pages of superbly crafted maps covering the
globe, the Essential World Atlas highlights the best aspects of
Oxford’s atlas line in a handy and affordable paperback format. Now in its
fourth edition, the Atlas has been expanded to include island maps of
Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, the Virgin Islands,
Barbados, the Whitsunday Islands, Singapore, Pinang, Ko Phuket, Ko Samui, and
Bali. New to the edition is the World in Focus thematic section, which contains
32 pages about the oceans, the environment, tourism, and more. In addition, the
Atlas has a fresh interior layout that makes it more user-friendly than
ever. Orientation is made easier with locator maps and a scale bar at the top
of each page, and tabs indicating adjacent map pages appear in the margins for
efficient cross-referencing.
Features include:
- 144 pages of stunning full-colour computer-generated maps
from a digital database
- 96-page section of large-scale world maps with a 35 000-name
general index
- Remarkable new approach to city mapping
- Fully up to date, reflecting hundreds of boundary and
place-name changes
- Easy to use indices with letter-figure grid references and
full geographical coordinates
- World statistics and survey data and colourful
representations of flags from around the world
- An informative user’s guide
- International in scope, with fully updated coverage of every
part of the world
Meticulously crafted and thoroughly updated, the Essential
World Atlas continues to be an indispensable resource.
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