| Author | Hugh Bowden |
| General Editor | Hugh Bowden |
| Editorial Director | Philip Parker |
| Other | Ceire Clark, Martin Brown |
| Designed by | Kathryn Gammon |
| Cartographer/Cartography by | Cosmographics |
| Illustrator | Andras Bereznay, Mel Pickering |
| Advisor | Pat Geelan |
| Indexer | Chris Howse |
| Contributor | Daud Ali, Richard Alston, Isabel Anderton, Elizabeth Baquedano, Joe Cribb, Carol Michaelson, Justin Morris, Margaret Oliphant, Caroline Orwin, Julia Shaw, StJohn Simpson, Michael Willis |
| Imprint | Times Books |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Printed and Bound by | Editoriale Johnson SpA |
| Copyright Holder | Times Books |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London, England |
| This Edition Published | 2002 |
| Copyright | 2002 |
| Pages / Font | 192 pages |
| ISBN | 0 0071 0859 1 |
| ISBN | 0-00-710859-1 [Back cover] |
| Barcode | 9 780007 108596 |
| Price | RRP £29.99 [Inside front flap] |
