Courage Children's Illustrated World Atlas / consultant editor, Brian Dicks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dicks, Brian, consultant editor.

QED Publishing Limited, book producer, designer.

Courage Books (Firm), publisher.

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's atlases.

Atlases.

atlases.

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)

Physical Description:

128 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 35 cm

Distribution:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Imprint of Running Press,

Other Title:

Children's illustrated world atlas

World atlas

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : [Published by] Courage Books, 1989.

Contents:

Foreword / Brian Dicks

Your World. Your room; Your neighborhood; Your country; Your continent; The world's continents; Mapping the world; The world; The structure of the earth; Earthquakes and volcanoes; Rocks and minerals; How the landscape is formed; The seasons; Weather and climate; The world's vegetation; The world's crops; The seas and oceans; Travel and communications; The shrinking globe

Countries of the World. Looking at Europe; British Isles; France; The Low Countries; West Germany; Scandinavia, Finland and Iceland; The Alpine Countries; Italy; Spain and Portugal; Eastern Europe; The Balkans; Looking at Asia; Soviet Union; South-west Asia; The Indian Subcontinent; China; Japan; South-east Asia; Indonesia and the Philippines; Looking at Africa; Northern Africa; West and Central Africa; Eastern Africa; Southern Africa; Looking for Australasia; Australia; New Zealand; Oceania; Looking at North America; Canada, Alaska and Greenland; United States; Central America; The Caribbean; Looking at South America, Brazil; Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas; Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile; Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay; The Arctic and Antarctic.

Notes:

"A QED Book"--Title page verso.

"This book was designed and produced by QED Publishing Ltd., The Old Brewery, 6 Blundell Street, London N7 9BH"--Title page verso.

"Art director Alastair Campbell. Production director Edward Kinsey. Editorial director Jeremy Harwood. Senior editor Nicola Thompson. Art editor Heather Jackson. Designer Clive Haybell. Editorial Tim Healey, Keith Lye, Julia Kirk. Picture research Anne Lyons. Illustrators Marilyn Bruce, Chris Forsey, Gail Gibson, Arka Graphics (maps), Elaine Keenan, Edwina Keene, Abdul Aziz Khan, Elly King, Sally Kindberg (projects), Susan Kinsey, Sally Launder, Gary Marsh, David Staples, Perry Taylor, Martin Woodford."--Title page verso.

"Over 600 Pictures and Maps in Full Color"--Jacket.

"Throughout the book there are interesting and practical suggestions for projects connected with geographical features of the world or with particular countries, including making your own globe; making a model of the earth; making a fold mountain; how to find fossils."--Jacket lapel.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copies have dustjackets retained.

Running Press copy 1 is "1" printing.

Running Press copy 2 is "2" printing.

ISBN:

0894717030

9780894717031

OCLC:

20019749