Meeting both consumer and reference needs, this unsurpassed atlas contains 320 pages of outstanding world cartography, more than 350 four-color photos, and 30 stunning satellite photographs. Created in partnership with Bertelsmann/RV Verlag, and featuring a uniform scale of the entire planet at 1:4 million plus close-ups of 1:2 million of the U.S. and Canada. The book also contains 128 pages of index featuring special symbology, highlighted points of interest and road networks, top-quality, three-dimensional coloring, CD-ROM Planet Earth — a stunning multimedia guide to the lands, habitats, peoples, and cultures, and the fold-out MapReader.