Encyclopedic World Atlas

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	Encyclopedic World Atlas
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Oxford's Encyclopedic World Atlas is the real thing. Purveyor of information about the known world, it's more than just a bound collection of maps. The amount of data fit on any one page is astonishing, but even more impressive is that the quantity of erudition doesn't interfere with the quality or readability. Some topnotch writing and editing accompanies the fine and legible maps. For instance, on the Mexico page, one learns that the flag is a composite of French tricolor and Aztec symbols; the population doubled between 1960 and 1980; the average Mexican age is 17; and Mexico City, currently holding around 15 million inhabitants, is estimated to be the most populous city in the world by 2000--and that's just how the page begins. With sections on landscape, vegetation, economy, a bar graph for temperature and rainfall, a history of pre-Colombian civilizations, and a detailed, good-sized map, Oxford sets the standard for the genre. --Stephanie Gold