A walk-through of the book starts with the front cover ... at the part most people think of when they think of a world atlas: the maps. First are maps of the world as a whole, along with the ...

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While the map of the world may look set in stone ... And, as is made very apparent in a new book, “The Atlas of Extinct Countries” by writer Gideon Defoe, the reason for their demise isn ...

"My, Grandma - what a big atlas ... map the surface of the Earth to a frankly-ludicrous level of detail (this thing shows the location of shipwrecks), not to mention display beautiful photographs ...

The second part of the book is something that surprisingly has never before been seen in print: a complete atlas of official maps of every national passenger rail operator in the world.

But some books need special treatment to make it into the digital world ... lead curator of antiquarian maps at the library, tells Meier. “We digitized the atlas in order to increase access ...

“This is an atlas of ... collected in this book are all entirely fictitious; and yet each was for a time — sometimes for centuries — real. How? Because they existed on maps.” ...