The island of lost maps
a true story of cartographic crime
1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed.
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Word Count
101,000 words, Guess
Page Count
404 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL13631398M
- Internet Archiveislandoflostmaps00harv_0
- ISBN-100767908260
- ISBN-139780767908269
- Goodreads108762
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- LibraryThing15056
- OCLC Control Number47997430
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- DDC364.16/2
Description
"The Island of Lost Maps is the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was the Al Capone of cartography, a man with the unlikely name of Gilbert Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from south Florida whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation went virtually undetected until he was caught in December 1995.". "This is also the story of author Miles Harvey's quest to understand America's greatest map thief, a chameleon who changed careers and families without ever looking back. Gilbert Bland was a cipher, a blank slate - for Harvey, journalistic terra incognita. Filling in Bland's life was like filling in a map, and grew from an investigation into an intellectual adventure."--BOOK JACKET.
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