Reviews: Atlas of the United States

Summary

This paper is a collection of two book reviews. The first reviews a work on landscape-geographical zoning of Georgia, noting that the author divides Georgia into 6 landscape regions, 11 sub-regions, and 30 districts, and emphasizes the book's focus on detailed comprehensive physical-geographical descriptions, its vivid academic style, and its inclusion of zoning maps. It also suggests that the Russian edition should add sections on the national economic significance of landscape components, development prospects of regions, and bibliographies. The second review provides a detailed analysis of the 1966 Soviet-published 'Atlas of the USA', pointing out that it is the first Soviet economic atlas of a foreign country, with generally good quality but several shortcomings, such as issues with cartographic methods, terminology, and data comparability. The review offers suggestions for improvement and concludes that the atlas is suitable for school geography teachers and students, but insufficient for specialized research.