National Geographic Atlas of the World Eleventh Edition

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This complete and convincing historical world atlas reveals the story of our globe in detail, from the origins of life on our planet until the 21st century. Six mainly designed ‘Flavour Camp Charts’ group whiskeys by style and allow readers to distinguish new whiskeys from around the planet to try. From the tallest waterfall to the deepest belowground city, the most giant primate to the smelliest flower, this adventure can’t be beaten. This history atlas spanning millennia gives you a widespread view of the critical situations in our past. The book contains 140 maps, complemented with pictures, info boxes, and timelines. You will clearly understand some forces and changes across continents that have formed our world and history. Besides purpose-created maps, archival maps from Allied and Axis nations offer unique insights into historical events. There are also timelines to assist you in following the story as it opens, while historical overviews describe the political, economic, social, and technical progress at the time. Captivating, large-scale images present themes such as the Blitzkrieg, Holocaust, kamikaze combat, and code-breaking.

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Historical maps reveal the world’s political makeup over the last 150 years, and the atlas also contains plans of 41 of the world’s major cities. The World Atlas of Coffee presents the bean in full-color photos and short text. It shows the origins of coffee – where it is grown, the people who raise it, processing, grades, the consumer, and the modern culture of coffee.Maps have been around in some form since people first realized the need to record their environmental space. The National Geographic Society has been at the vanguard of mapmaking for the past hundred years. This last of the famous Family Reference Atlas of the World brings you the world and its wonders – through maps. Using satellite data has been assembled to create some 1,4 thousand images – maps, charts, diagrams, tables, and National Geographic’s signature color images – to allow you to explore the most distant corners of our planet. An authoritative new history of great breadth, the book presents a spectacular reinterpretation of history’s deadliest war conflict.

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Every of the 24 wonderfully decorated maps brings to life the movies we know and love, and each comes with additional information about the film and the characters. The World Atlas of Wine is the most outstanding and impressive wine-writing work. Revealing the changing landscape of the wine scene, the Atlas shows developments in climate, technique, fashion, and new laws made over the last years. New North American and Australian maps feature the importance of cool-climate areas as climate change takes impact. For instance, for the first time, dynamic regions such as coastal Croatia, South Africa’s Swartland, and Chinese Ningxia are included. The world’s growing appetite for wine is matched by a growing desire for knowledge, which this Atlas will fully satisfy. The World Atlas of Whisky is the 2nd edition, wholly rewritten and updated. Whiskey expert Dave Broom examines over 200 distilleries and analyzes over 400 expressions. Thorough descriptions of the Scottish distilleries can be found in this Atlas, while Ireland, the United States, Canada, Japan, and the rest of the planet are given complete coverage. There are tasting notes on rare malts from Aberfeldy to Tormore, Yoichi. Atlas of Record-Breaking Adventures: A collection of the biggest, fastest, longest, toughest, tallest, and most deadly things from around the worldAs you ascend mountains, zip-line over woods, and dip into oceans, this atlas is your passport to a world of undercover wonders illustrated by beautiful art. The latest edition includes physical maps of all the continents and above 200 thousand place names, which implies even tiny settlements are retained on the maps. The world atlas features the latest satellite images showcased worldwide in the imagery part, a geographical reference section with flags, statistics, and facts for all the world’s nations, and more than 50 thousand index entries. The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid is an exciting pilgrimage to 100 of Earth’s most incredible, bizarre, and weird-but-true locations. The Second World War: The Definitive Visual History takes you from the bloodshed of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles.

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Richly illustrated with awe-inspiring imagery, including images from space missions and telescopes, science-based artists’ interpretations, and descriptive graphics, the book also comprises 170 maps and graphs of planets, moons, and constellations, from Earth’s moon to moons of Saturn. Practical guidance helps readers notice what they have been reading about, building essential observational skills such as “star-hopping” from easy-to-find stars to fainter deep-sky objects and focusing on “deep sky treasures:” affluent areas in observable wonders and phenomena. You can explore our Solar system and Universe. With complete charts of the heavens, get the details on every nation globally, including cultural activities, primary languages, and even a short history. Created for all global citizens, this universally respected volume of world maps has been completely revised and updated with fascinating visualizations of international trends and global conditions.In a time when political, health, climatic, and environmental crises anywhere on the planet can change our daily lives, maps provide a time-honored way to navigate the realities we face. With this atlas, you hold an authoritative yet convenient tool for explaining global forces’ interaction at work in the fast-changing but always wonderful planet that is our home. This is a fascinating and visually breathtaking guide for anyone curious about Word War I, suggesting a proper understanding of this brutal conflict that altered the course of history.

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Atlas of Record-Breaking Adventures gets together some of the global’s most breathtaking sights and unforgettable events in a stunningly decorated addition to the critically acclaimed Atlas of Adventures series. Written by a crew of historians directed by Richard Overy as an expert, World War 2 Map by Map explores how the most violent conflict in history shaped our world’s face. In this new edition of the atlas, the map professionals at National Geographic have worked with a geography educator to provide the following: The National Geographic atlas of the world is a set of high thematic maps to understand world events and difficulties, from natural resources to climate change and economic patterns. The atlas is a sarcastic almanac of humanity’s fancy world views, from the ancient ages to Donald Trump and the era of Facebook and YouTube. The atlas contains more than a hundred different viral stereotype maps.

Experience some of the most famous battles, such as the Somme and Verdun, through fascinating direct reports from soldiers who fought and civilians who lived through World War I. In photographic galleries, get a close-up view of the unusual weaponry and equipment used throughout the world war and discover more about notable people, including David Lloyd George and Joseph Joffre.