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Overview
The Concise Atlas offers the same comprehensive coverage as its parent in a conveniently sized, affordable package. The editors sought the advice of educators and librarians from across the nation in creating the Concise, so it contains a host of easy-to-use and informative features, including a user guide, helpful graphics on map projections, a subject index, and representations of flags from around the world. The special 32-page United States map section offers an abundance of multicolored political, topographical, and climate maps.
Editorials
School Library Journal
Based on Oxford's larger Atlas of the World, this title has two separate series of maps, each with its own index, as well as four consecutive series of page numbers. The format can be confusing and makes Oxford's Concise Atlas harder to use than Goode's. But Oxford is certainly comparable in terms of depth of coverage. There's a good introductory section on projections and scales, and the thematic maps and charts have a fresher look than Goode'sthis makes the maps more dramatic, but harder to read. Oxford also makes more liberal use of shaded relief for a similar effect. The large Oxford reference maps have more detail than Goode's, but Goode's counters this by providing many inset maps on areas of interest. Overall, the Oxford is a worthy atlas that, for reference use, ranks slightly below the Goode's.Book Details
Published
April 23, 1998
Publisher
New York : Oxford University Press, c1997.
Pages
176
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780195213706