Welsh Journals

THE NATIONAL ATLAS OF WALES Edited by Emeritus Professor Harold Carter With a Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales The National Atlas of Wales comprises over 200 maps providing the most complete coverage of Wales yet achieved, with sections on the physical environment, political development, culture, economic history, land use and agriculture, industry, services and communications, population and settlement, and urban and regional planning. The contributors, all of them acknowledged specialists in their fields, have compiled map series based on their own research. Much of the work presented has been prepared especially for the Atlas while more appears, up-dated and re-designed, for the first time outside the pages of specialist professional literature. While much of the material will be familiar to those who regularly use maps, there are also many innovative features. One of the design features of the Atlas is that the individual sheets, (of which there are over forty) are housed in a handsome purpose-made box, consisting of an opening of four pages, the centre two of which bear the maps. The general format is for one principal map to describe the topic with subsidiary maps used to highlight different elements of the main map or to develop its theme. A commentary on the map's content by its compiler has been incorporated in the National Atlas of Wales in both Welsh and English on the first and fourth pages of each sheet. 1 The Atlas costs £ 250 and is available from the University of Wales Press. For a full prospectus please write to the address below. JUNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESSl FREEPOST, CARDIFF, CF1 1YZ