The Times Atlas of the World

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NINTH COMPREHENSIVE EDITION
"A world remade must be a world remapped."
WITH TI lESK WORDS. Lord Northc lilTo. then pi'cjpricior of The Times. launched the 1922ediiic)n of THE TIMES ATL^ XS. referring lo the immense changes w rouiihi b.N- llie First World War. Se\ent.\-years latex-, world political iipliea\'al has led to .just as radical a revision ol" The Times Atlas, to frontiers and to place-names which imtil
recentl>' seemed immutable. Fifteen republics ba\e emerired
from the debris of the Soviet Union and many place-names
have rev'erted to their pre-communist forms. New states
have been established in the former territor.\" of the Yugoslav Federation.
This new edition reflects changes in other areas too: the shrinking of the-Sj'al Sea. new European highways, the West bank of the Jordan.
Poland. Mongolia.
®
The index to the maps, with 210.OOO names, is unique in scope, and has been completely-
re-ediiecl and reset.
®
The pi'eliminary sections include a st^itistical... Tovább

Fülszöveg

NINTH COMPREHENSIVE EDITION
"A world remade must be a world remapped."
WITH TI lESK WORDS. Lord Northc lilTo. then pi'cjpricior of The Times. launched the 1922ediiic)n of THE TIMES ATL^ XS. referring lo the immense changes w rouiihi b.N- llie First World War. Se\ent.\-years latex-, world political iipliea\'al has led to .just as radical a revision ol" The Times Atlas, to frontiers and to place-names which imtil
recentl>' seemed immutable. Fifteen republics ba\e emerired
from the debris of the Soviet Union and many place-names
have rev'erted to their pre-communist forms. New states
have been established in the former territor.\" of the Yugoslav Federation.
This new edition reflects changes in other areas too: the shrinking of the-Sj'al Sea. new European highways, the West bank of the Jordan.
Poland. Mongolia.
®
The index to the maps, with 210.OOO names, is unique in scope, and has been completely-
re-ediiecl and reset.
®
The pi'eliminary sections include a st^itistical sui'xey of the woi'ld's states and territories, an illustrated list of
geographical comparisons, a series of magnificent physical
maps, and features on cosmology-, earth sciences and
A series of detailed thematic maps prov ides a clear picture
of climatology, energy, food production, vegetation, miner-alog-yand population densit.v.
The maps in The Times .Xtins of the Woi'lcl. created and printed by the celebrated Edinburgli cartograpliers. Bartholomew.
are renowned tl\rougln>i.u the world foi- their beaut.v af»d accuracy-. They- ai-e printed in eight coloui's I'oran uniiarallelod tonal range allo\\-ing maxlmin-n clai-iiy and leglbilliy-. Vissza