The World of Flowers, May 1968 In a preface to the book, information designer Nigel Holmes describes the magazine as ‘the ultimate reference for maps, charts, and diagrams that explain everything about Earth and space. It has historically and heroically gone to the trouble to collect and verify all the available facts, data and stories about cities, countries, coastlines, sand dunes, mountains and valleys; about how rivers wind their way to the sea (and the sea itself); about climate change, how earthquakes split the ground, and how hurricanes send houses and cars flying across the sky …’