This is a fully revised new edition of Philip's ultra-clear double-sided road map covering the whole of Germany & the Netherlands with a comprehensive index & eight town plans. Philip's Germany & Netherlands Road Map is designed for long-distance driving & is a convenient size for opening out on a table or in a vehicle. Germany & the Netherlands are shown at 10 km to 1 cm (16 miles to 1 inch) an ideal scale for long-distance driving with major routes & destinations picked out in bold colours. Toll & pre-pay motorways are clearly shown along with restricted & unrestricted motorway junctions service areas & rest areas. Town plans are provided for Amsterdam Berlin Cologne Dusseldorf Frankfurt Hamburg Munich & Stuttgart. For holiday planning the map highlights scenic routes & shows car ferry routes along with ancient monuments beaches castles cathedrals national parks ski resorts theme parks world heritage sites & many other places of interest. ...

The market-leading atlas for pupils at primary schools Philip's Junior School Atlas has been fully revised for its 7th edition. It is a stimulating & authoritative first introduction to the world of maps. The introductory section describes the meaning of scale how to measure distances using the maps & explains the symbols on the maps. The following section is devoted to the United Kingdom & Irel&. Thematic maps cover topics such as mountains & rivers climate & weather population & cities farming & fishing industry & energy transport tourism & conservation. Regional maps of England & Wales Scotland & Ireland complete this section. The rest of the atlas is made up of world thematic maps & world continental maps. Included are topics such as the world's climate vegetation agriculture minerals & environmental concerns such as global warming.A simple letter-figure index completes the atlas
- a useful introduction to help the young reader find his/her way around the maps.
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Britain's best-selling secondary school atlas now in its 97th Edition Philip's Modern School Atlas is divided into sections for ease of use with each page colour-coded for rapid reference. A 10-page Remote Sensing section covers such topics as satellite imagery & GIS (with an explanation of false-colour usage) incorporating a selection of images used in studies of exploration land reclamation erosion geology & pollution with explanatory text. The next section covers the United Kingdom & Ireland in 32 pages. With physically coloured maps this is the most accurate mapping of the UK & Ireland available at the chosen scales
- accompanying the physical maps are thematic maps on numerous key social & economic themes. The middle section is made up of 74 pages of World topographical maps incorporating continental thematic maps on topics such as climate population & economics followed by 30 pages of World thematic maps. Completing the atlas is a section of World social & economic statistics accompanied by the index to the topographical maps in the atlas showing letter-figure grid references as well as latitude & longitude co-ordinates. Available in both hardback & paperback formats Philip's Modern School Atlas 97th Edition is an unbeatable combination of highly detailed physical mapping backed up by numerous tables & thematic maps.
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Britain's best-selling secondary school atlas now in its 97th Edition Philip's Modern School Atlas is divided into sections for ease of use with each page colour-coded for rapid reference. A 10-page Remote Sensing section covers such topics as satellite imagery & GIS (with an explanation of false-colour usage) incorporating a selection of images used in studies of exploration land reclamation erosion geology & pollution with explanatory text. The next section covers the United Kingdom & Ireland in 32 pages. With physically coloured maps this is the most accurate mapping of the UK & Ireland available at the chosen scales
- accompanying the physical maps are thematic maps on numerous key social & economic themes. The middle section is made up of 74 pages of World topographical maps incorporating continental thematic maps on topics such as climate population & economics followed by 30 pages of World thematic maps. Completing the atlas is a section of World social & economic statistics accompanied by the index to the topographical maps in the atlas showing letter-figure grid references as well as latitude & longitude co-ordinates. Available in both hardback & paperback formats Philip's Modern School Atlas 97th Edition is an unbeatable combination of highly detailed physical mapping backed up by numerous tables & thematic maps.
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Philip's Moon Map is a large-format folded map of the near side of the Moon. It has been specially drawn for Philip's by Dr John Murray a research lecturer at the Open University who is an expert on the lunar surface. The map is not only a highly accurate & clear representation of the Moon but is also a practical guide for lunar observers. More than 500 physical features
- craters seas mountain ranges peaks valleys & rilles (elongated depressions)
- are named & indexed & the landing sites of unmanned & manned spacecraft are also marked. The observer can thus readily identify objects seen through binoculars or a telescope or select targets for a programme of observation. The chart

Includes:: a small map of the far side of the Moon (never visible from the Earth) & is accompanied by a practical guide to lunar observing. This concise & informative text describes the various types of feature to observe illustrated with drawings & photographs. Tips are given as to the best point in the lunar cycle to observe the most interesting of these features. Guidelines on drawing or photographing the Moon are also included. Colour artworks explain the Moon's orbit & why its phase (the proportion of the Moon that is visible from Earth) changes during the course of a month. Also explained with the help of illustrations are the path of the Moon during the course of the year & why lunar & solar eclipses occur.



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Philip's Navigator (r) Wales is part of a series of Navigator (r) regional road atlases. The Navigator (r) maps provide highly detailed coverage at 1.5 miles to 1 inch of the region's road network including minor country lanes & rural tracks
- & even major footpaths
- & every junction roundabout & slip-road is shown in detail. There is an abundance of other detail including thousands of individually named farms houses & hamlets. Also shown are airports airfields stations ferries canals marinas & a wide range of places of interest. There are also useful details of many services that may be needed while travelling such as tourist information centres. The atlas has a comprehensive index &

Includes:: indexed town plans of major regional centres. The front of the atlas contains a unique 15-page guide to regional leisure with full details of places of interest such as castles houses cathedrals & museums plus guides to nature reserves parks & gardens & listings of a wide variety of activities from abseiling to yachting. The atlas is designed with the leisure user particularly in mind & is ideal for touring with its large scale & wealth of travel information. The exceptional detail also makes the atlas ideal for local business use such as planning & delivery driving.



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Invaluable for both beginners & advanced observers Philip's Planisphere (Latitude 51.5 North) is a practical hour-by-hour tracker of the stars & constellations designed for use anywhere in Britain & Ireland Northern Europe Northern USA & Canada. Turn the oval panel to the required date & time to reveal the whole sky visible from your location. The map by the well-known celestial cartographer Wil Tirion shows stars down to magnitude 5 plus several deep-sky objects such as the Pleiades the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) & the Orion Nebula (M42). Because the planets move round the Sun their positions in the sky are constantly changing & they cannot be marked permanently on the map; however the back of the planisphere has tables giving the positions of Venus Mars Jupiter & Saturn for every month until 2020. The planisphere is supplied in a full-colour wallet that contains illustrated step-by-step instructions for how to use the planisphere how to locate planets & how to work out the time of sunrise or sunset for any day of the year. It explains all the details that can be seen on the map
- the magnitudes of stars the ecliptic & the celestial coordinates. In addition the section ' Exploring the skies season by season' introduces the novice astronomer to the principal celestial objects visible at different times of the year. Major constellations are used as signposts to navigate the night sky locating hard-to-find stars & some fascinating deep-sky objects. The movement of the stars is also explained.
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This local street atlas of Bournemouth & its surrounding towns & villages gives detailed coverage of the area at a scale of 4 inches to 1 mile. It also

Includes:: enlarged centre maps for Bournemouth (at 7 inches to 1 mile) & Poole (at 6 inches to 1 mile). The maps show hospitals car parks post offices one-way streets leisure facilities industrial areas & retail areas while the index lists street names & postcodes. An area road map enables the user to identify through-routes more easily. Pocket sized & wire stitched so that it opens out flat the atlas is ideally suited for both business & leisure use whether by locals or visitors.

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This local street atlas of Exeter & Exmouth & their surrounding towns & villages gives detailed coverage of the area at a scale of 4 inches to 1 mile. It also

Includes:: an enlarged centre map for Exeter at 6 inches to 1 mile. The maps show hospitals car parks post offices one-way streets leisure facilities industrial areas & retail areas while the index lists street names & postcodes. An area road map enables the user to identify through-routes more easily. Pocket sized & wire stitched so that it opens out flat the atlas is ideally suited for both business & leisure use whether by locals or visitors.

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This local street atlas of High Wycombe & Amersham & their surrounding towns & villages gives detailed coverage of the area at a scale of 4 inches to 1 mile. It also

Includes:: an enlarged centre map for High Wycombe at 7 inches to 1 mile. The maps show hospitals car parks post offices one-way streets leisure facilities industrial areas & retail areas while the index lists street names & postcodes. An area road map enables the user to identify through-routes more easily. Pocket sized & wire stitched so that it opens out flat the atlas is ideally suited for both business & leisure use whether by locals or visitors.

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