The Orient Blackswan School Atlas (with CD-Rom)  (English, Paperback, unknown)

The Orient Blackswan School Atlas (With CD-ROM) is a comprehensive atlas for students that helps them gain a better understanding of the world’s geography as it pertains to human activities such as trade, politics, tourism, and more.

Summary Of The Book

The Orient Blackswan School Atlas (With CD-ROM) is a collection of maps that provides a look at the world’s geographical features, with a special focus on their relationship with human endeavors. Geographical aspects like geology, climatic variations, and vegetation are blended with aspects of human activities like industry, politics, agriculture, and communication.

The book has a special focus on the geography of the Indian sub-continent. It presents maps of all the Indian states and union territories, their headquarters and districts. Statistical data for the states and union territories is also included in the form of pie charts and three-dimensional histograms. The book also presents the Indian population, its density, sex ratio, and literacy ratio.

It also contains maps dedicated to Indian flora and fauna - the maps indicate national parks, biosphere reserves, forest cover, sanctuaries, and tiger reserves. Several special maps are included to cover heritage sites, universities, satellites launched, and areas prone to natural disasters. A fact file covering Chandrayan, India’s premier unmanned mission to the moon is an interesting key feature of the book.

As far as the global geographical picture is concerned, the book includes maps showing detailed information about the SAARC countries, socio-economic scenarios, flags of newly-formed nations, climactic conditions, wildlife distribution, endangered heritage sites, and environmental deterioration. A special map is included to cover natural phenomena like earthquakes, volcanic activity, tsunamis, and hot spots. Another unique map covers the routes of famous adventurers and explorers.

All the information provided in the book is well-researched and up-to-date. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM that contain maps that can be enlarged and minimized, if required.

This particular edition is the fifth edition of the book. It was published in 2010 by Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.