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Earth Atlas
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The Ultimate book about our World.
Global Mapping are proud to be involved in the production of the World’s
largest Atlas 576 pages, cased and jacketed, measuring 610mm x 469mm
(36” x 18”) This comprehensive atlas
examines the physical World as you’ve never seen it before, with new
emphasis on current political, social and environmental landscapes. One
special feature will be the four stunning 6ft (2m) gatefolds.
Earth will be a once-in-a-lifetime limited printing of just 3000 copies
Worldwide and, at just £2,000.00 a copy, will be an investment for collectors,
bibliophiles and a unique corporate gift for that special promotion. To reserve
your copy or for more information on trade deals, call 01280 840770 now before all copies are pre ordered ahead of its UK launch with delivery in December 2008.
Earth is special for a number of reasons, not least the fact that each copy (including its case) is lovingly hand bound in leather. As such only a certain number can be delivered at any one time. The first consignment will be delivered mid December of which we have 13 remaining. The next shipment is expected February. In the interest of fairness, orders will be processed strictly in the order they were received. Thank you for your interest in Earth, we will continue to update the situation here so you are kept fully informed.
LATEST NEWS
Earth featured on Blue Peter, BBC 1, .October 28 along with Miley Cyrus and the guys from National Geographic.
UK public launch, November 26-29 at Space, Brackley, Northants. To register your interest call 01280 840770 or email sales@globalmapping.uk.com
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World’s biggest atlas goes on sale - costing the earth
Copies of the largest world atlas ever produced have gone on sale at an earth-shattering price of £2,000 each.
Dubbed “the ultimate book about our world”, the luxurious, limited edition Earth is hand-bound in leather with gilded edges and silver-plated corners.
The atlas and its case together weigh 30kg – more than the maximum many airlines set passengers for their baggage allowance.
The 576 pages contain 154 maps and 800 photographs backed with detailed descriptions of every country’s geography, history and culture. Lying closed, the atlas takes up a third of a square metre with four gatefolds opening out to two square metres each.
Ten cartographic experts at the British map company Global Mapping spent eight months compiling Earth with more than 100 overseas colleagues including fellow map makers, geographers and oceanographers. They worked with detail from a continuously updated world database of digital mapping.
Global Mapping’s Alan Smith said: “We all had to keep to the same, consistent specification to make sure everything tied in universally from the way we shaded hills to the presentation of political geography. The sheer physical size of the atlas is amazing. The overall content, including the maps, text and photographs, is very much more detailed than any other atlas ever produced.”
Only 3,000 hand-numbered copies of Earth have been made – one for every 3.3 million people in the world. The atlas is expected to appeal to specialist collectors, libraries, rich individuals with a penchant for mapping and companies seeking lavish, once-in-a-lifetime corporate gifts. Taking the exclusive level even higher, one thousand copies from the print run have had their covers redone in gold leather with gold plated corners at the request of distributors in the Middle East.
Earth is the brainchild of Australian map publisher Gordon Cheers who has already received several hundred orders for copies. He described it as “a time capsule of where we are in the world today”.
The atlas may be impressive but its 30kg weight still pales into insignificance when compared to the mass of the planet itself – estimated at an unpronounceable 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg.
You have the option below to pay in 3 stages and spread the cost of your investment. To reserve your copy (over 1500 already accounted for) you can select to pay just the deposit now or the whole amount.
Please note, you should order from this site only if you are resident within Britain and Ireland. USA enquires should contact Chris Knoebel of Hema Maps cknoebel@hemamaps.com
For all other countries contact Global Mapping (sales@globalmapping.uk.com)and we'll advise you accordingly.
LATEST NEWS
Earth Concise wins the critically acclaimed International Map Trade association Award for Best book in 2008.
Noleen Zander Executive Director IMTA (Asia Pacific) says, " this is a prestigious award that will mean that for anyone who loves maps, Earth Concise is quite simply the absolute best collection of world maps available on Earth".
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