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SECOND EDITION
Senior editor
Rachel Thompson
Senior art editor
Rachael Grady
Senior cartographic editor
Simon Mumford
US editor
Karyn Gerhard
Designers
Chrissy Barnard, Kit Lane
Managing editor
Francesca Baines
Managing art editor
Philip Letsu
Production editor
Gillian Reid
Production controller
Samantha Cross
Jacket designer
Juthi Seth
FIRST EDITION
Senior editor
Rob Houston
Senior art editor
Philip Letsu
Senior cartographic editor
Simon Mumford
Editors
Helen Abramson, Steve Setford, Rona Skene
Designers
David Ball, Carol Davis, Mik Gates
Researchers
Helen Saunders, Suneha Dutta, Kaiya Shang
Cartography
Encompass Graphics, Ed Merritt
Illustrators
Adam Benton, Stuart Jackson-Carter
Creative retouching
Steve Willis
Picture research
Taiyaba Khatoon,
Ashwin Adimari, Martin Copeland
Jacket design
Laura Brim, Natasha Rees
Jacket design development manager
Sophia M. Tampakopoulos Turner
Pre-production producer
Rebekah Parsons-King
Production controller
Mandy Innes
Publisher
Andrew Macintyre
Art director
Phil Ormerod
Associate publishing director
Liz Wheeler
Publishing director
Jonathan Metcalf
This American Edition, 2021
First American Edition, 2013
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CONTENTS
Land, sea,
and air
Introduction
Earth’s crust
Earthquakes
Mountains
Volcanoes
Ocean floor
Ocean in motion
Rivers
Craters and
meteorites
Hot and cold
Rain and snow
Hurricanes
Biomes
Forests
Deserts
Ice
Time zones
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8
10
12
14
16
18
20
22
24
26
28
30
32
34
36
38
Living
world
Introduction
Dinosaur fossils
Predators
Deadly creatures
Alien invasion
Bird migrations
Whales
Sharks
River monsters
Insects
World of plants
Biodiversity
Unique wildlife
Endangered
animals
Extinct animals
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44
46
48
50
52
54
56
58
60
62
64
66
68
70
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Where people live 76
Nomads
78
Young and old
80
Health
82
Pandemics
84
Poverty
86
The world’s gold 88
Billionaires
90
Food production 92
Food intake
94
Literacy
96
Pollution
98
Garbage and
100
waste
102
Clean water
104
Fossil fuels
Alternative
106
energy
Climate change
108
110
Wilderness
People and Engineering History
Introduction
and
planet
Fossil humans
technology
Prehistoric
Introduction
74
Introduction
Air traffic
Shipping
Railroads
Roads
Tallest
buildings
Internet
connections
Satellites and
space junk
Armed forces
114
116
118
120
122
culture
Ancient
empires
Ancient
wonders
Mummies
124 Medieval
wonders
126 Medieval
empires
128 Castles
130 Battlegrounds
The last
empires
Revolutions
Shipwrecks
Industrial
wonders
164
134 Introduction
166
136 Languages
Holy places
168
170
138 Tourism
Art
172
174
140 Statues
Festivals
176
178
142 Television
180
144 Stadiums
Motor racing
182
146 Roller coasters 184
National flags
186
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150
188
152 Index
Acknowledgments
154
192
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160
Culture
Land, sea, and air
Skeleton Coast, Namibia
The Atlantic Ocean meets the
edge of Africa’s Namib Desert
at the Skeleton Coast. Rainfall
here rarely exceeds 0.39 in
(10 mm) per year.

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