New Views: The World Mapped Like Never Before: 50 maps of our physical, cultural and political world

I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

From the publisher -

A unique and beautiful collection of fifty maps in which our physical, political and cultural world is visualized, measured and mapped like never before. From charting energy networks to revealing new and emerging lands, measuring human migration to assessing the planet’s ant populations – and including the phenomena we have little control over such as lightning strikes or asteroid impact – each map asks you to question, wonder and look again at our rapidly changing and often surprising world. Divided into three thematic sections: Land, Air and Sea; Human and Animal, and Globalization, New Views offers a fresh and truly global portrait of our intricately fascinating planet.

So, I got this book THIS MORNING from NetGalley and sat down and read it, completely ignoring all the housecleaning that I was meant to do. Sigh. The photos and statistics in the book are presented so wonderfully that one can forget that it is not a reference book and think that it is a gorgeous coffee table book. This is one of those books that every library in the world should have in their collection – my only complaint is that many of the maps were across two pages and I imagine that it would be difficult to read what was in the book’s center if you were reading an actual “hard copy” of this book. AMAZING book!!! 5/5 stars!!!