Consider the humble atlas: a relic of the past, a mirror of the society that made it. Atlases are meant to be read with wonder, the way I thumbed through the Rand McNally atlas I received for my ninth ...

In Greek mythology, the giant Atlas was condemned to eternally hold up the sky as punishment for his defeat by Zeus in the Titan War. The ancient Greeks’ imagination of the Atlas Mountains in North ...

If you want to inspire your kids to travel, then reading map books is a great way for kids to visualise how big and diverse ...