I have a couple of books from National Geographic and I love them. As a child we had lots of books like this around and I could sit for hours getting lost in them. My grown up collection is slow growing but one book at a time!

Ooh, I have several from Britain and about Britain; and my favorite books, wherever from the air photography. Hawaii, London, Oahu, Britain, and Malta are some of them. Of course, Atlases, as well. Must have maps. Gotta have them from the Thomas Brothers Maps of California to the Ordnance Surveys of the UK. I definitely need an updated World Atlas...it keeps changing out there. Oh yes, and a splendid one on the Volcano (Kilauea) which contains a photo David took when Mauna Loa was erupting and the entire skyline above Hilo was outlined in active flow fronts. Most impressive...and most disquieting.

I'm a map fanatic too. But I mostly just have maps, rather than books and atlases.

I have maps, too...loose ones which I store in an accordion-pleated whatevers (can't remember what they're called). I know where more obscure little islands in the world are by hunting for them on my maps during DXpeditions.

and speaking of maps, do remember our map collecting topic in collections!

Not to mention the Cartography topic in Geo...

are those two topics attached?

No...none of the map topics are linked...Yours and mine should have been from the beginning, but when we were in the first frenzy of creation that July day, we did not think of linking...

that's alright. i think yours is more along the lines of creating and mine's of keeping *grin*

This is true...*s i g h*

My favourite coffee table books are of Gambia, predictably. I wallow in nostalgia sometimes. The others are mainly art books. I have a long shelf of large books, including the Anglo Saxon Chronicles which sort of counts.

The Domesday Book is not in your collection???!!! That would surely qualify, but you'd have to mortgage the house to afford a copy - even the newly released one...! It would look nice beside the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, I think...