Hammond World Atlas

by Theodore Roethke

The new Hammond World Atlas, Fourth Edition is completely updated. It features an exciting new map style with enhanced relief that makes topographic features leap off the page. It has a beautiful new cover design and compelling new thematic articles. One hundred twenty totally new content pages make it the perfect tool for exploring and understanding the world in which we live. Enhanced Terra-Scape maps featuring hypsometric and bathymetric tints vividly display land and ocean floor terrain. Sixty-four new pages of compelling articles on a variety of global concerns are accompanied by stunning photographic and thematic maps, tables and graphs. Forty-eight new pages of breathtaking satellite imagery with interpretive text add further understanding to the earth and its surface. It's easy to use with 110,000-entry Master index, quick reference guide, population chart, world locator, and time zone maps. The Hammond World Atlas, Fourth Edition is a wonderful addition! to any bookshelf or coffee table and sets the pace for other atlases.

Genres: Reference

408 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

American poet Theodore Roethke published short lyrical works in The Waking (1953) and other collections.

Rhythm and natural imagery characterized volumes of Theodore Huebner Roethke. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking. Roethke wrote of his poetry: The greenhouse "is my symbol for the whole of life, a womb, a heaven-on-earth." From childhood experiences of working in floral company of his family in Saginaw, Roethke drew inspiration. Beginning is 1941 with Open House, the distinguished poet and teacher published extensively; he received two National Book Awards among an array of honors. In 1959, Yale University awarded him the prestigious Bollingen Prize. Roethke taught at Michigan State College, (present-day Michigan State University) and at colleges in Pennsylvania and Vermont before joining the faculty of the University of Washington at Seattle in 1947.

Reviews

[Cassandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love maps. I love this beautiful book. My only complaint is for some reason the editor thought it would be okay to interchange ft/km consistently within a single paragraph in the opening "World Thematics" section. It is written like cliff notes to an earth science class. Other than confusing the distances, makes the atlas unique and more than a reference book of maps.