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\"\"<\/a>The Rand McNally Road Atlas<\/em> has long been a staple of North American travellers. The company—still around—is celebrating the atlas’s 95th edition<\/a> by putting out a retrospective volume of the road atlas’s covers<\/em>: American Journey: A Treasury of Rand McNally Road Atlas Covers<\/em><\/a> (Rand McNally<\/a>, 3 June) is a slim hardcover volume: 96 pages, enough for one page per edition. CNN Travel<\/a> has coverage. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rand McNally Road Atlas has long been a staple of North American travellers. The company—still around—is celebrating the atlas’s 95th edition by putting out a retrospective volume of the road atlas’s covers: American Journey:… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[30,1232,528,618],"class_list":["post-1785841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","tag-books","tag-cover-art","tag-rand-mcnally","tag-road-atlas","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1814070,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/04\/the-rand-mcnally-road-atlas-at-100\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785841,"position":0},"title":"The Rand McNally Road Atlas at 100","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 April 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"I spent an astonishing amount of my childhood just staring at an out-of-date copy of the Rand McNally Road Atlas. 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