The Times Atlas of the World: Comprehensive Edition; Road Atlas: 44th Annual Edition

Summary

This review assesses The Times Atlas of the World: Comprehensive Edition and Rand McNally’s Road Atlas, 44th Annual Edition. The reviewer praises the Times atlas’s 120 double-page maps, binding, and 200,000-entry gazetteer, but finds its comprehensiveness limited by its emphasis on political mapping, sparse shaded relief, and uneven local coverage of the United States. The inexpensive Road Atlas complements it with roads, city maps, and the names and boundaries of all approximately 3,000 U.S. counties.