The Royal Geographical Society Bücher

'This is a great puzzle book, for budding explorers and young adventurers. There's no better way to test your exploration skills without leaving the house!' - Levison Wood Can you pin-point the last-known location of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance? Can you help Amelia Earhart circumnavigate the globe? Are you the next Neil Armstrong? In this unique puzzle book, the Royal Geographical Society brings over a century of maps and expertise to inspire your inner Livingstone and tantalise your budding Columbus. With hundreds of questions on 50 iconic explorers and a mix of mind-boggling maps, word games and trivia questions - it's time to dust off your compass, pack your snow shoes and test your geographical skills against the most legendary adventurers ever to traverse the globe.

"Philip's World Atlas" is designed as a family atlas, suitable for junior and lower secondary school work, with a 32-page illustrated thematic section providing information on topics such as the Solar System, the structure of the Earth, climate and weather, the environment, population, resources, economics, politics and many others. This atlas also includes a special "World Cities" section, which provides urban area and city centre maps marking tourist sites for 67 of the world's most important cities, backed up by a comprehensive index. Full-page satellite images for 9 of the cities featured complete this section. The 96 pages of physical and political maps aim to give a balanced coverage of the world. Each map is accompanied by a locator diagram and adjoining pages indicator. The 35,000-name index includes geographical features as well as towns and cities, with both letter-figure grid references and latitude and longitude co-ordinates.