Besprechungen: Atlas of Australian Resources

Summary

This article comprises two German-language book reviews. The first reviews the 'Agricultural Atlas of Venezuela' (published 1960), which contains 107 maps covering agricultural economy, social structure, and natural foundations, employing district cartograms and dot maps. It highlights the diverse crop cultivation in the Andean zone, livestock farming in the Llanos, and pest distribution, though data is based on 1950 and climate maps on only 5 years of observation. The second reviews the 'Atlas of Australian Resources' (published from 1952), comprising 30 main sheets with accompanying commentaries, systematically presenting geology, drainage, vegetation, agriculture, mining, industry, and immigration. It notes readability issues due to uniform small scales but praises the atlas as an outstanding national work revealing Australia's vast contrasts.