Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #243786 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-02
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Times atlases have for some time been market leaders, and a short inspection of this volume shows you why. It exudes competence and clarity. Before you even get to the maps, there's a 58-page introductory section with information on everything from the planets to the oceans, including handy one-paragraph factboxes on all the countries in the world. There are special maps of 32 of the world's great cities, satellite images of each continent and an index of 100,000 place names--which means 100,000 chances to answer the "But where is it?" that drives so many people to an atlas. It's the immaculate, clear, detailed mapping, of course, that's the heart of the book--272 pages of it, providing pretty thorough coverage of every part of the world. Unfussy fonts and carefully chosen colour coding make the maps highly legible.

If you want lots of satellite images and other photographs, then look to the DK World Atlas (which also showcases the trademark DK design, naturally); if you want something a little briefer in a traditional mould, try the Philip's Atlas of the World; if you want something really, really detailed and don't mind about price, try this book's big brother, The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World. If you're after a good all-rounder, however, that has just about everything you could ask from an atlas in a remarkably well-crafted package, this book is hard to beat. --David Pickering

Synopsis
The 8th concise edition of "The Times Atlas of the World" is completely new and expanded to have 272 pages of mapping and an index to over 100,000 place names. The reference mapping has been completely revised and redesigned to be in the same style as the "Millennium Edition of The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World" and there are additional large scale maps, including Central Asia, Japan, southeast Australia, and eastern United States. The updated city plans are included on the reference maps of the country in which they are located for easy reference. New features in the introductory section include unique satellite images of the continents geo-referenced to the continental maps, and additional geographical topics such as "The Oceans", "Urbanization" and "Communications" as well as completely updated information on the States and Territories of the World. The index now has over 100,000 entries, and is fully cross-referenced with alternative and former names.

Customer Reviews

Useful reference book
I love to travel and look at the maps and dream! Also, very helpful in completing crossword puzzles - nicely laid out with plenty of detail.

The "Times" atlases only get better
The first "Times" atlas that was generated from digital databases was published in 1996. Four years later, the eighth Concise edition of the Times Atlas of the World shows that Bartholomew is by now fully proficient in creating a masterpiece from digital bits and bytes. Basically, this edition is an abridged version of the huge "Comprehensive millennium edition", although this eighth edition certainly deserves more than being regardes as a "little brother". Much less expensive than the costly Comprehensive edition, this world atlas is still a large book with an index to over 100,000 entries, fully cross-referenced. Large-scale maps that were painfully missing in the previous edition, such as central Japan and northeastern U.S.A., have now been included. More important, urban area maps have now been added, something that is missing in the Comprehensive edition. The colour coding is extraordinary subtle; the plates are highly legible without cluttering the pages too much. The thematic section has also been expanded somewhat. When trying to think of any minor points on this atlas, I couldn't really find any worth mentioning. In this atlas size range, there is a lot of competition from other brands (Philip's; Dorling Kindersley; MacMillan; Hammond; Trident), and I have collected them all, but there's no doubt that this new concise edition is, overall speaking, by far the best choice if you are looking for a good source of reference in regard to the most commonly asked question for a world atas: "Where is it located?"