The Peters World Atlas
The Earth in its true proportion

World maps and atlases used to be based on a projection created by the sixteenth-century cartographer Gerardus Mercator for use in navigation. However, these representations tended to reinforce a colonialist, Eurocentric view of the world. In contrast, the Peters' World Atlas represents all countries and continents at the same scale, each double-page spread showing one sixtieth of the Earth's surface. All 246 thematic maps are also equal-area world maps. The presentation of issues relating to man, nature, and society in these thematic maps help us to better understand tensions between North and South, East and West, and so to become true citizens of the world.

• ALL MAPS ARE PETERS PROJECTION
The only atlas to preserve area accuracy for every part of the globe.

• REALISTIC 3-D RELIEF
Superb hand-crafted 3-D effects give an unequalled picture of land forms.

• SATELLITE IMAGING
Up-to-date images give accurate information on desertification and desert encroachment.

Size: 315 mm height x 225 mm width
Pages: 238. Hardback, wipe clean cover.

"An atlas to take us into the twenty-first century; an atlas that seems perfectly in tune with our growing spirit of internationalism."
Publishing News

"The Peters Atlas marks a great leap forward in our conception of the world - it should find a place on every bookshelf."
Evening Telegraph

"Never mind thrillers, give me an atlas for bedtime reading."
The Post

"Peters showed that you could turn the globe into a flat rectangular map without committing a gross act of cartographic colonialism. It looked like a highly political act but, of course, it was really his predecessors whose maps were politically loaded."
New Scientist, 18 May 2002, page 54

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