| With one hundred pages of superbly crafted maps covering the globe,
the Essential World Atlas highlights the best aspects of Oxfords
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. |