Hammond Compact Peter's World Atlas

By Arno Peters

Book Overview

All maps in this atlas were created on the Peters Projection, which preserves area accuracy, thus giving an impression of the world quite different from the commonly used Mercator projection maps.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0843718323
• ISBN13: 9780843718324
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Hammond World Atlas Corporation
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 12.6"

Customer Reviews

21st Century Global Perspective

All cartographers make choices and tradeoffs when they map the world. The Peters projection tries to give a more accurate perspective of area and scale than more traditional maps. One glance at a Peters projection and one is immediately struck by the size of Africa, and this is just one reason why this projection has earned a reputation as a postcolonial map.The Peters Atlas is a special treat for those who have an appreciation for this projection. It's an amazingly inexpensive two-part atlas with separate sections for equal area physical and global thematic maps. It's also an interesting alternative to other inexpensive atlases, like the DK Concise/Compact Atlases of the World, which use a more traditional projection system and annotate political and regional maps extensively. The Peters Atlas contains only maps; rather than factual tables or map annotations, it relies on thematic maps which provide global comparisons at a glance.To be perfectly honest, when I viewed both the Peters and DK Concise Atlases at a local bookstore, I bought the DK Atlas for my niece who is going to college this year. I wasn't planning on buying another atlas for myself, but I ended up buying Hammond Compact Peters World Atlas for myself. Bottom line...I like the Compact Peters Atlas better than the DK Atlas that I bought for my niece, and I think you will too.