An Atlas can have many functions. A simple tool to find where some place is. A tool to go to that place. Or a tool to dream about that place, the real reason why some people actually do read atlases. Equally an art book can educate you, or make you try to go and see this art. Here we have a very happy combination of a good historical atlas with plenty of well chosen art illustration from Renaissance Italy. And architecture, urban design and all sorts of creative endeavors of these times. The result is superb as you can embark again and again to the places where so much of our present world comes from. Or you can use it as a particularly pleasant reference book.

Why is there no one single illustrated book dedicated to the Kings/Queens of France? What a shame that the Royal family of France cannot be portrayed in a positive light.

WE NEED MORE BOOKS ON FRENCH HISTORY!!!! JUST ONE PLAIN BOOK, WITH ALL THE HISTORY OF FRANCE IN IT, WOULD MAKE MY DAY. THANKYOU.