I can still remember when I was very young receiving my very first Atlas. It was children’s atlas of sorts but it was fairly detailed - when I opened it on Christmas morning - I can still remember that little tinge of disappointment - which was reserved for all ‘book/educational’ presents - unless it was the latest 2000AD annual.
I guess it was a day or two later when I finally looked at it properly and it made something click inside me that is still with me now into my forties. …