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 enlarge | Author: Kodansha International
Publisher: Kodansha International
Category: Book
List Price: $24.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 143467
Media: Paperback
Edition: Bilingual
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6 x 0.3
ISBN: 4770030266
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9784770030269
ASIN: 4770030266
Publication Date: July 14, 2006
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 Good collection of maps. August 10, 2006
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
When I ordered this book, I was expecting a more traditional atlas, with geographic information, etc., but this is simply a collection of maps. there is no explanatory text. But there is a table of contents and an index.
There are 5 sections: Area Maps; City Maps; Sight-Seeing Maps; Transportation Maps; and Thematic Maps. The area, city, and transportation maps are self-explanatory, but the reader could have trouble figuring out what is in the other sections. For example, the sight-seeing maps have lots of places indicaed in red, but there is no indiccaion of just why they are noteworthy. In the thematic maps, several of the themes may not be apparent. For example, I was baffled by the map labeled "Ramsar Convention Area Areas and had to do a Google seaqrch to figure it out. There are also some basic typos in English that aven a novice copy editor should have caught. "Marchent homes" for "merchent homes," or "histric" for "historic."
In all, though, if you want a handy,very portable map collection , with place names in romaji and kana/kanji, then this is worth getting.
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