Maphead
Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Times bestselling author of Planet Funny 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 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 ou…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4391-6719-9
- EAN: 9781439167199
- Produktnummer: 14341572
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'627 KB
- Abbildungen: rough front; approx. 6 b&w line drawings
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