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This engaging school ‘geography’ reference is worth its weight in at least copper, and you can pick one up used for under a dollar. The DK Geography of the World is that rare book that delivers more than it promises.
The book opens with excellent introductions for school and family levels on the physical world, moving continents, climate and vegetation, world population, and the political world before launching into region by region and country by country brief surveys.
Each one contains just enough information to whet a young or inexperienced appetite and—let’s just keep this our little secret, shall we?—to toss a quick briefing in the direction of the seasoned traveler headed for parts unknown.
The book aims for accessibility with a certain breezy tone: more than one country is ‘tucked just inside the northwest(ern) corner of’ its respective region (see the UK and Belorussia).
The DK pays nice interest in the history of each country, frequently noting what a given country was ‘part of’ before its emergence as a modern nation-state.
About the only bad thing you can say about this quasi-atlas is that it’s not the Oxford Atlas of the World. But for 74¢ used + postage, what’s the harm in that?
Canter Bridge 
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