Try ordering a copy of Earth Platinum from your local bookshop and they’ll get quite the surprise. There were only 31 printed and the price tag is $100,000 USD. It would also take quite the delivery truck at 1.8 metres tall and weighing 150 kilograms. I viewed this copy ten years ago in the UAE’s national archives when I was working in Abu Dhabi as a heritage interpretation consultant, planning an exhibition that made use of archive materials from the NCDR. Sadly, we didn’t have room to include this enormous book in our display.

The atlas takes two people to turn the page and also contains the world's largest image in a book – a 272-gigapixel photo of the Shanghai skyline. This image is made up of more than 12,000 images tiled together into one.