People and Places: A Visual Encyclopedia

Find out all about the people of the world and the cultures that make up our global community.

From Spaniards to Samoans, the Miao to the Miskitu, this fully updated edition of DK's popular Encyclopedia of People will take you on a worldwide tour of continents, peninsulas, and islands to discover what life is like for the billions of people on our planet.

Discover how the Yakut people survive in the Arctic temperatures of Siberia, or why tattoos are so important to Maori culture. Learn about the Mbendeje people's hunting sign language that lets them silently creep up on unsuspecting prey. People and Places: A Visual Encyclopedia shows you different cultures through illuminating photography and bite-sized chunks of information.

The perfect companion to geography and culture projects for school-aged children, this book is a treasure trove of facts and information about the people that make up our world.