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Maphead : Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

ISBN: 9781439167182 | 1439167184
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner
Pub. Date: 4/17/2012

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Ken Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at Google Earth. Each chapter delves into a different aspect of map culture: highpointing, geocaching, road atlas rallying, even the “unreal estate” charted on the maps of fiction and fantasy. Jennings also considers the ways in which cartography has shaped our history, suggesting that the impulse to make and read maps is as relevant to... MORE
Eccentricityp. 1
Bearingp. 13
Faultp. 32
Benchmarksp. 56
Elevationp. 79
Legendp. 105
Reckoningp. 122
Meanderp. 148
Transitp. 166
Overedgep. 186
Frontierp. 212
Reliefp. 237
Notesp. 251
Index... MORE
Reading Group Guidep. 277
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Ken Jennings is die author of Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs, about his record-breaking 2004 appearance on the quiz show Jeopardy!, as well as Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac: 8,883 Questions in 365 Days. He lives outside Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Mindy, their two kids, and a deeply unstable Labrador retriever named Banjo.


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