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I learned about the TIMES Atlas in two locations prior to buying it: I worked as a Senior Architect for the Nigerian Government in 1975 and joined the Lagos Public Library and was amazed with it there as it showed some of the tiniest roads in Nigeria that I would drive just for fun on the weekends, exploring, with my new Honda Civic. Back home in Pennsylvania I found another on the very top shelf of atlases at the Chester County Libary (probably to keep ten-year-olds from pulling the 11-pound, 6-kg book off on top of themselves! As a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo, Africa, "Togo Fisheries '66" and a Study Abroad Student at the Architectural Association in London in 1965 with travels that summer in a new VW Squareback with 150 hitchhikers from 25 countries ... (admittedly a spoiled kid, with a touch of "hippy!", and a father who was involved most of his career with in global work through ASTM and ISO to achieve, through his work with the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware, with the DuPont Company for thirty-ne years with seventeen trips to Europe, I always have had an interest in other nations and peoples. I have at this point visited 37 lands. I am working now intensely, once again, on my International Center for the Arts, a global retreat for the very best artists of all the arts and of all nations for all time, an elegant and non-profit project of mine since 1994. In addition, on my pro photographer/model site, modelmayhem, I have critiqued photography on over 2700 sites over most of the planet in the past eight years, silently caring for my father in his late 90s and 100s. It is so much fun to pin-point the smallest towns that I have visited and the home towns, however tiny and remote, that my new friends come from. I have about seven atlases now, a weakness of mine, and have long known that there is simply nothing that compares with the detail and coverage of the TIMES Comprehensive, and, I presume, this 13th Edition. I did, however, buy the National Geographic Atlas 9th Edition at the same time, an old "family friend" their Atlas has always been close at hand my entire life, (we having subscribed to the National Geographic Magazine since it was a small brown booklet in 1932! I could have saved $40 (on Amazon?) with the dual atlas purchase, but din't see the offer until later. I will be working intensely with students from three universities neaarby and persons of all ages and walks of life, and their many global travels, to help determine the ideal location for the Center, hopefully meeting the visions I have had for it for so many years. An absolutely huge global map from National Geographic arrives very soon and has, just for fun, it's future site on the living room wall marked off with drafting tape with anticipation! Laminated, hopefully to allow some form of temporary marks for mileage and adjacent art monuments, climates, security, access, etc., it will combine with both atlases to give us the best possible evaluation of our concepts. The map measures 80" x 57" (and they do offer two even larger!) I expect the TIMES Atlas, often called "the best book on the planet" ...and that would be my opinion, as an architect and photographer, highly into images (and nearly illiterate LOL,) it will earn its keep as a constant resource when no other single source could possibly answer the questions at hand. I really do want the hand-made leather version, saving the $1200! Just buy the TIMES, your search is over!Read full review
A must have book with a long history of accurate geographic cartography.
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Best world atlas published. Awesomely complete. Nerdy as it gets!
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