Apes: And Other Hairy Primates Book

Things I liked: The maps looked pretty accurate (I’m not a cartographer, but there are plenty listed on the copyright page). There’s a listing before the index with countries, capitals, population, etc. – all of equal length. There are lots of ‘blurby’ pictures and pieces of information that students would most likely love to read through.

Things I didn’t like: The only thing I could really look at with any sort of prior knowledge was the Canada section. There’s a map of North America (with some pictures covering the numbers going up the side grid – makes it a little harder to find things based on the index). There’s a map that zooms in on the Yukon, BC, AB, SK, and MB, but there’s a box with information covering NWT and Nunavut – frankly that’s all I needed to determine that this atlas won’t work for me. There’s a map of Ontario and Quebec. The third and final map covers ON, QC, Nfld, NB, NS, and PEI. Now, I didn’t double check the US section to see if some of their states were ignored or how they were spaced out, so I don’t know if this was an oversight or some kind of anti-Canada conspiracy, but I don’t want my maps to leave out any parts of my country – the north matters and covering it up suggests otherwise.