“Wine is geography,” Jancis Robinson MW often says. And in this new 8 th edition of The World Atlas of Wine, Ms. Robinson and co-author Hugh Johnson focus on wine region geography in depth. This ...

Ever drive by a street full of buildings or bridges that are covered in graffiti and wonder who did the artwork and what it all means? A new book by Rafael Schacter, The World Atlas of Street Art and ...

As a child, there were two kinds of books that persuaded me to beg my parents for a trip to the library: Goosebumps books and world atlases. While I’ve outgrown R.L. Stine’s hardcover horrors, I still ...

It's no secret that I love maps. I love looking at them, studying them, using them and teaching from them. I love current maps, outdated maps, beautiful maps, historical maps and, well, any kind of ...

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders, written by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, and Ella Morton isn’t a traditional travel guide. You won’t find popular sites like the Pyramids ...

A lot has happened to our world since 1990, when the National Geographic Society last published a fresh edition of its vaunted Atlas of the World. The Inuit gained their own territory in Canada, ...

The story behind an atlas and landmark work of graphic design is the focus of a new book about designer Herbert Bayer’s contributions to information design and visual education. Herbert Bayer's World ...