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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A Nigerian storyteller explores the continent of Africa country by country: its geography, peoples, animals, history, resources, and cultural diversity. The book is divided into five distinct sections--South, East, West, Central, and North--and each country is showcased on its own bright, energetic page brimming with friendly facts on science, industry, food, sports, music, wildlife, landscape features, even snippets of local languages"--
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The dramatic story of Christianity from its origins to the present day, told through more than one hundred stunning color maps. With over two billion practicing believers today, Christianity has taken root in almost all parts of the globe. Its impact on Europe and the Americas in particular has been fundamental. Through more than one hundred beautiful color maps and illustrations, Christianity traces the history of the religion, beginning with the...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Uniting National Geographic's incomparable photography with state-of-the-art cartographic technology, this is the most compelling, authoritative, and up-to-the-moment visual atlas on the market.
Updated for the first time since 2008, National Geographic's visual atlas of the world will delight and inspire history lovers, current event buffs, and cartography fans alike. From spectacular space imagery to UNESCO World Heritage Sites, this stunning book...
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Take a tour of America's great outdoors and discover the beauty and diversity of its most iconic and majestic national parks. Explore Florida's river-laced Everglades, travel down the white water rapids of the Grand Canyon, trek across the deserts of Death Valley and scale the soaring summits of the Rocky Mountains with this book that brings you up close to nature's greatest adventures. Packed with maps and fascinating facts about the flora and fauna...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"...to reveal how each state's territory was determined and explores their individual natural environments, populations, politics, traditions, legends, and quirks.....highlighting what makes each one unique as well [as] an integral part of the whole. Learn new factoids about each state's history, natural resources, geography and monuments as well as the truth behind the legends....There's a story...
Publisher
Published in North America by Oxford University Press USA
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Atlas shows maps of the world and satellite photography of the earth that reflect the most recent political, economic, and demographic statistics, and presents articles addressing the environment and population matters in major cities
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