英国伦敦泰晤士出版公司在1978年出版的《泰晤士历史地图集》以其鲜明的特色,赢得读者的赞誉。第二年———1979年即再版发行,并随后发行了德、意、法、日等十四种版本,可以说是享誉世界的一本地图集。这本地图集有六百六十幅彩色地图、图解和图片,并配以三十万字的说明,读者阅 The Thames Atlas of History, published by the Thames Publishing Company in London, England, in 1978, won readers’ acclaim for its distinct characteristics. The second year - 1979 - was republished in a few days and was later released in fourteen versions of German, Italian, French and Japanese, which can be said to be an atlas of the world. This atlas consists of 660 color maps, illustrations and pictures, accompanied by three hundred thousand words of explanation, readers read