The Times Atlas of the World: Mid-Century Edition

Summary

E.L.Y. reviews volumes 4, Southern Europe and Africa, and 5, The Americas, of The Times Atlas of the World: Mid-Century Edition, edited by John Bartholomew and published in 1956 and 1957 respectively, judging both to maintain the excellence of the previously published volume 3. The review outlines regional map scales and larger-scale coverage of selected areas, including the Nile Delta and Sinai, Kenya-Uganda, and the Middle Atlantic seaboard. The reviewer particularly praises the clarity of the concluding Atlantic and Pacific bathymetric maps, at 1:40,000,000, each accompanied by inset maps of principal islands.