After spending her sheltered high school years in Hawaii, Kathleen Norris was woefully unprepared for Bennington College in the 1960s, with its culture of drugs, sex, and bohemianism. But it was also at Bennington that she discovered her great love of poetry, which carried her to New York City at a time when a new generation of poets was emerging and shaking up the establishment. Working at the Academy of American Poets for her beloved mentor, Elizabeth Kray, and hanging out at clubs with Andy Warhol's crowd at night, Norris found herself immersed in an exciting and emotionally turbulent new world. This updated atlas for the elementary through junior high age student goes from a global perspective to the various continents and then to specific countries or regions within the continent. Each regional or country map shows major cities as well as any city that is referred to in the text.
Every map has insets that contain a locator map, the height of the land-mass and a scale legend.
This Atlas is recommended as an update for older volumes that lack the political changes in recent years. Its inviting format should appeal to children in school and public libraries.