Pocket World Atlas [Hardcover]

Oxford Univ Press (Author), Oxford University Press (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0195215885 | ISBN-13: 978-0195215885 | Edition: 3

Here is an essential volume for tourists and executives on the go. Slipping easily into a pocket, valise, or backpack, this handy atlas brims with information vital to visitors of foreign lands.
The heart of this atlas is its 64-page travel section, with maps of time zones, major air routes, and climate, plus a gazetteer of 126 notable countries. The gazetteer includes specific information on each nation's form of government, national flag, currency, language, weather, banking hours, and international dialing code, plus important advice about medical requirements and warnings about any potential danger spots. There are also street maps of the center of 20 major cities, from Amsterdam and Athens to Tokyo and Vienna, plus 96 pages of up-to-date political maps of the world.
A gold mine of pertinent information, Oxford's Pocket World Atlas is the staff that every pilgrim needs.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 3 edition (May 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195215885
• ISBN-13: 978-0195215885
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,454,609 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, except for the USA, July 21, 2002

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Digital Puer "digital_puer" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pocket World Atlas (Hardcover)

This is an excellent and handsome pocket world atlas that I keep in my backpack whenever I'm travelling overseas. The maps themselves are fantastic, except for the USA. The problem is that the state boundaries are drawn with such a lightly-coloured red that you can't make them out. Adding to the difficulty is that the major highways are drawn with a dark red, further obscuring the states. The map of the north-east USA, for example, is practically illegible. This problem doesn't occur for other countries since the US is the only country with so many major internal states. The maps of other continents have a nice thick red line separating countries, which is important for Africa and Europe.

It contains a pretty thorough gazetteer, showing the flag and some details of the world's countries (although some info may be out of date by the time you buy this; Afghanistan, for example, is detailed as saying "war is raging between the Taliban and the remainder of the government nations"). The book also contains small street maps of 20 cities across the world, including NY, Paris, London, Tokyo, etc. but they didn't include Los Angeles, Budapest, Prague, Beijing, Shanghai, or Moscow for some reason (but they do have Amsterdam and Brussels??). The page edges are gilded with a gold-like appearance. Really nice. Since I keep my book in my backpack all the time, I put it in a ziploc bag to keep the gilding from wearing out.

Except for the problem with the states of the USA, this is an excellent book due to its appearance and small size. The poorly drawn maps of the USA aren't a big deal to me since I have larger reference atlases at home I use to look up funny little imaginary states like "Arkansas."

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super!, July 2, 2000

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Ahmed (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pocket World Atlas (Hardcover)

It's a hardcover pocket size atlas of the world! It's perfect for travelling, taking to school, and is very helpful!

It has political and mostly physical maps of all the seven continents of the world. It also shows the major oceans, lakes, seas, bays, etc.

Besides showing large mass' of land and water it also shows narrow rivers, and mountains. From the rocky mountains to the African Sahara, from snowy siberia to icy Antarctica, this atlas has maps of every single place in the world!