The ultimate coffee-table book! Atlas is in excellent condition - no torn pages. Over 500 pages of high-quality maps of every part of the world, including detailed pages of the world by climate, mineral distribution, vegetation, food production and consumption and population distribution, together with statistics on inland waters, islands, continents, mountain heights, drainage basins, sources of energy and many other aspects of the globe - even a chart of tectonic plates showing their direction and speed of travel. There are also star charts and many facts and figures about the solar system. The index runs to 218 pages, containing 210,000 place names.