Category Archives: Atlases of the Week

For this week’s atlas, I chose The Atlas to Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful Destinations by journalist Olivier Le Carrer. This atlas depicts the stories of 40 locations that have been overcome with disaster, death,  and … Continue reading →

This week’s atlas is City Atlas: Discover the Personality of the World’s Best-Loved Cities in This Illustrated Book of Maps by Martin Haake. This atlas brings to life thirty best-loved and famous cities from around the world by bring out the … Continue reading →

Concise Atlas of the World (Sixth Edition) by DK Publishing, Inc. is the atlas of the week.  This atlas contains over 400 maps.  Many of the maps in this atlas utilized the latest digital mapping techniques, allowing for more detail … Continue reading →

The An Atlas of International Migration, published by Aaron Segal in 1993, presents you with interesting maps about major international migrations, from the migration routes of people in early 16th Century to global remittances transfers in the late 1900s. As … Continue reading →

An atlas is typically a collection of individual maps which each describe a separate topic, whether it be population or weather. The Earth 3D – Amazing Atlas by 3Planesoft, is an interactive online map of the world which is able … Continue reading →

In 1986, Walt Disney World distributed this atlas to its employees to show various locations throughout the resort.  These locations included existing locations, like the Magic Kingdom, the EPCOT Center, the Fort Wilderness Campground, the Contemporary Resort, Lake Buena Vista … Continue reading →

The New State of the World Atlas The 1980’s were a chaotic time in European and American history, and nothing personifies this better than The New State of the World Atlas. Part of the Pluto Press, an organization who wanted radical change … Continue reading →

  Atlas of the Lewis & Clark Expedition The Lewis and Clark Expedition was not only an expedition that explored uncharted territory but expanded American influence through contact with the Native Americas. This trip has as much to do with … Continue reading →

http://fnad.org/Documentos/worldatlasofcora01spal.pdf When thinking of Maps and Atlases we often jump to think of land masses above sea level, but below the oceans surface there are massive networks of ocean floor topography, covered in coral and thriving with life.  But these … Continue reading →