The Times Atlas of World Exploration transports the reader back to the world’s first civilizations and through a narrative of progress educates the reader on how the world we see today has formed since the beginning of time. A majority of the maps demonstrate this narrative and evolution of the world with color-coded arrows signifying distinctive trade and migration routes from 3,000 years ago up until thirty years ago. The author, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto does an excellent job in showing the development of the modern world in an organized and comprehensible fashion.
Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. The Times Atlas of World Exploration. New York: HarperCollins Publisher, 1991. Print.