for christmas, kevin gave me an awesome national geographic national road atlas – when we go on trips in the car i have to remember, but keep forgetting, to look out the scenery and see the world go by, because i love love LOVE to study maps. i love to see where we’re going, where we’ve been, and the huge number of places we could go, or we’ve been.
today i got an e-mail from national geographic and they have a new WORLD atlas. i quickly looked at it…and it’s A HUNDRED AND EIGHT DOLLARS! that’s for the PAPERBACK version!
doesn’t that seem slightly outrageous to you?
i want it. but it’s WAY too much money, especially considering i don’t know when we’ll get to take any trips outside the US.
here’s part of the description of the atlas:
The National Geographic Atlas of the World, 9th Edition is truly a crowning achievement in geographic publishing. With the help of highly-advanced digital and satellite imaging technology, it took a team of 125 preeminent scientists, geographic experts, and first-class cartographers to bring you the most rousing picture of our planet ever seen.
so, hmm, is it more than a hundred bucks because of all they money they had to pay to those preeminent scientists, geographic experrt, and first-class cartographers? what if they’d used second-class cartographers? if you’re a cartographer, and i’ve never in my life even read about anybody being one, i would hope you wouldn’t be a second-rate one. seriously, how many cartographers can there be, and doesn’t it seem that maybe they’d take a smaller payment for their services because it has to be hard to find lots of cartography work. especially since most things have already been thoroughly mapped. yeah, there is lots of unrest, especially now, but still, not that many changes is my guess.
and the same for geographic experts; is there a huge calling for them? and i’m sure that’s not the right word for a geographer.
plus, why did it take 125 of them? i guess cause the world is a very big place?
right now a goose just flew up on top of the bird feeder. i hope it’s the poor limping goose, because i figure he needs all the food he can get. this morning when i woke up, there he was, limping along and it was such a sad thing to see first thing in the morning…
i have to keep pressing on with my day now.
ok then,
mrs. busy friday hughes.