Author Jamie Ambrose
Editor Olivia Stanford
Project editor Allison Singer
Project art editor Hoa Luc
Designer Rhea Gaughan
US Senior editor Shannon Beatty
US editor Jane PerlmutterMap illustrator Jeongeun Park
Cartography Ed Merritt, Simon Mumford
Illustrators Maltings Partnership, Molly Lattin,
Bettina Myklebust Stovne, Oliver Magee
Additional design Lucy Sims, Yamini Panwar
Assistant editor Prerna Grewal
Jacket coordinator Francesca Young
Jacket designer Hoa Luc
Managing editor Laura Gilbert
Managing art editor Diane Peyton Jones
Pre-production producer Nikoleta Parasaki
Producer Niamh Tierney
Art director Martin Wilson
Publisher Sarah Larter
Publishing director Sophie MitchellFirst American Edition, 2017
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SEE ALL THERE IS TO KNOW4 How to use this book
6 The world
8 North America
10 North American taiga
12 Great Plains
13 Eastern forests
14 Western deserts
16 Central America
17 Caribbean
18 Florida Everglades
20 South America
22 Amazon rain forest
24 Andean mountains
26 Temperate pampas
28 Pantanal
29 Galápagos
30 Cerrado
32 Cordillera Blanca
34 Africa
36 Sahara desert
38 Congo Basin
40 Southern savanna
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