![]() ![]() If you’re an inveterate map lover yourself-or even if you’re among the cartographically clueless who can get lost in a supermarket-let Ken Jennings be your guide to the strange world of mapheads. Its a low rank, and the book has not much sales on Amazon. Jennings also considers the ways in which cartography has shaped our history, suggesting that the impulse to make and read maps is as relevant today as it has ever been.įrom the “Here be dragons” parchment maps of the Age of Discovery to the spinning globes of grade school to the postmodern revolution of digital maps and GPS, Maphead is filled with intriguing details, engaging anecdotes, and enlightening analysis. Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks book is in low demand now as the rank for the book is 104,865 at the moment. Read 1,080 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks is Ken's foll. 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. Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings Maphead book. 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. ![]() 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). ![]()
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