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File-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Instances bestselling creator of Planet Humorous Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives, “a literary gem” (The Atlantic).
Ken Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Honest to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses on the Nationwide Geographic Bee to the pc programmers at Google Earth. Every chapter delves into a distinct facet of map tradition: highpointing, geocaching, highway atlas rallying, even the “unreal estate” charted on the maps of fiction and fantasy. Jennings additionally considers the methods by which cartography has formed our historical past, suggesting that the impulse to make and browse maps is as related at the moment because it has ever been.
From the “Here be dragons” parchment maps of the Age of Discovery to the spinning globes of grade faculty to the postmodern revolution of digital maps and GPS, Maphead is stuffed with intriguing particulars, participating anecdotes, and enlightening evaluation. When you’re an inveterate map lover your self—and even in the event you’re among the many cartographically clueless who can get misplaced in a grocery store—let Ken Jennings be your information to the unusual world of mapheads.
ASIN : 1439167184
Writer : Scribner; Illustrated version (April 17, 2012)
Language : English
Paperback : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781439167182
ISBN-13 : 978-1439167182
Merchandise Weight : 11.2 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.76 x 9 inches
