Peters World Atlas: The Earth in its True Proportions (Revised and updated ed.)

The first edition of this Atlas was published in 1973 by Professor Arno Peters (1916‐2002). A German journalist, he is best known as a cartographer creating Peters World Map by developing a range of methods for incorporating historical, cultural and geographical information into maps. This edition updates the previous 2002 edition (RR 2003/157). The previous atlas had 246 thematic maps compared with 212 in this volume.

The first 85 pages show each country and continent at the same scale (one square centimetre equal to 6,000 square kilometres) with the maps maintaining fidelity of area, axis, and position, something never...