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Summary: Don't Be Fooled-- This Is A Tiny Pocket Atlas!
Review: Duh. ... There is a good reason-- it is a tiny, useless pocket atlas offering almost no detail. Unfortunately, the Amazon description (at least at the time I bought the book) did not mention this.I would imagine an atlas that lists only large highways and cities might be fine if you were, say, traveling from Boston to Seattle on I-90 ... That, however, is not part of my travel plan.
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Summary: Don't Be Fooled-- This Is A Tiny Pocket Atlas!
Review: Duh. ... There is a good reason-- it is a tiny, useless pocket atlas offering almost no detail. Unfortunately, the Amazon description (at least at the time I bought the book) did not mention this. I would imagine an atlas that lists only large highways and cities might be fine if you were, say, traveling from Boston to Seattle on I-90 ... That, however, is not part of my travel plan.
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Summary: For tired eyes.
Review: This is a good book for those whose eyes are tired or who have gotten to that magical age where eye muscles require you to use reading glasses. It has the basic roads through the States, the Canadian provinces, and one map for Mexico. But it does not have each and every road: I checked my home area and found all the highways I would advise out-of-state friends to take to get to my hometown. But the local roads to get to my home were not there. Short of topo maps and county road maps, such roads are usually not shown. Also, the tiny, tiny town names that are hard to see on most maps are easily readable: I found a tiny town that is so small that at one time it had only one town sign -- seriously. This is a handy road atlas for most people, but it is large (over a foot long and almost a foot wide). Keep at home or in the back seat.
Rating:
Summary: For tired eyes.
Review: This is a good book for those whose eyes are tired or who have gotten to that magical age where eye muscles require you to use reading glasses. It has the basic roads through the States, the Canadian provinces, and one map for Mexico. But it does not have each and every road: I checked my home area and found all the highways I would advise out-of-state friends to take to get to my hometown. But the local roads to get to my home were not there. Short of topo maps and county road maps, such roads are usually not shown. Also, the tiny, tiny town names that are hard to see on most maps are easily readable: I found a tiny town that is so small that at one time it had only one town sign -- seriously. This is a handy road atlas for most people, but it is large (over a foot long and almost a foot wide). Keep at home or in the back seat.
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