Earth

By Charles F. Gritzner,

Book cover of Earth: The World Atlas (Concise)

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Profiles the world's countries, providing descriptions of each, their dependencies, and territories.


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1 author picked Earth as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Finally, I can’t go past recommending the biggest book ever produced on this planet—and by big, I mean physically enormous. Earth Atlas comes in a variety of sizes, all of them big, with the biggest being The Earth Platinum Limited Edition. Measuring a whopping 6ft x 9ft (1.8m x 2.7m) and weighing 150 kg, it needs six people just to carry it around and two to turn its pages. It was the lifelong dream of Gordon Cheers of Millennium House to produce this Guinness-Book-of-Records-winning atlas with the help of a team of over 88 cartographers from around the world.…

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