The Times Family Atlas of the World

A nice little atlas. Has: 39 pages of statistics and flags of countries listed alphabetically, and located on a world map on each two-page spread; geographical comparisons of continents, islands, bodies of water (4p.); relief maps of the world (14p.); the usual geographic data on the solar system, temperatures, rain, population, time zones (7p.); country maps UK favored with largest scale 1:2,000,000 US is 1:5M (72p.); 50 city maps (15p.); and pronunciation, a geographical dictionary and gazeteer of 30,000 names, without pronunciation (63p.). While it is not the Times Atlas, it is very attractive, useful, and low-priced. Metric. 9x12. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.