Contains 218 pages of maps, including 14 pages of satellite photographs.

Full color maps illustrate this volume which also includes facts on each area.

The Encyclopedia Britannica 6-Book Interactive Science Library is both educational and fun! 6 Encyclopedia Britannica Science Reference Books (80 pages each):Dinosaurs Reptiles and Birds, Under the Sea, Animals, Humans, Space, and Earth 1 SD-X Interactive Reader that reads texts and plays audio for more than 4,000 audio touchpoints Interactive quizzes and activities Vivid, detailed photos and illustrations 2 interactive posters (20'' x 24'' each)

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction Featuring a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. The novel careens, with dazzling virtuosity, to Belgium in 1931, to the West Coast in the 1970s, to an inglorious present-day England, to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok, and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The novel boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, David Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a video game, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.

250 full-color maps from the Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Maps cover 195 countries; 50 US states, 5 territories and the District of Columbia. Fully updated for 2012.

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