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Strabo’s “Geography,” written as Rome was turning from republic to empire, became an imperial handbook to the lay of the land. Sarah Pothecary’s new translation is a colossus of roads ...
National Geographic's Atlas of the World retails for $175, but is currently listed for about $110 on Amazon. All images courtesy of National Geographic.
In some respects this compilation is of wider and of more durable value than either of the two previous works, for it covers economic and social as well as locational geography. The author is a ...
Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share ...
Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps and atlases, spanning European mapmakers from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas ...
Looking for a cute town to visit? World Atlas named these nine small towns in Georgia the cutest. See the list.
Released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the map is part of the country’s updated Geographical Atlas, emphasizing Brazil's prominence in global affairs.