The Golden Book Picture Atlas of the World, Book 5, Africa

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A hardcover copy of Africa: The Golden Book Picture Atlas of The World, Book 5 by Golden Press. The hardcover book is paperboard bound and laminated. The front cover is two shades of two shades of mulberry purple and features a large color topographic illustration of the continent of Africa and the island of Madagascar featured prominently over the bottom two-thirds of the cover. Near Egypt is a small illustration of the Sphinx in profile. Along the west coast of the Africa is an illustration of three men in traditional regalia wearing red calve length skirt wraps, overlaid with a white aprons with black and red patterns. They are also wearing tall headdresses and two are carrying spears. Near the east coast of South Africa is an illustration of a zebra. At the top of the front of the cover is a darker, mulberry field divided into two sections by a white dotted line.

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