An edition of The island of lost maps (2000)

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An edition of The island of lost maps (2000)

The Island of Lost Maps

New Ed edition
  • 3.25 ·
  • 4 Ratings
  • 5 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

"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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Cover of: The Island of Lost Maps
The Island of Lost Maps
January 10, 2002, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: The Island of Lost Maps
The Island of Lost Maps
February 1, 2001, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Hardcover
Cover of: The island of lost maps
The island of lost maps: a true story of cartographic crime
2001, Broadway Books
in English - 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed.
Cover of: The island of lost maps
The island of lost maps: a true story of cartographic crime
2001, GK Hall, Thorndike Press
in English
Cover of: The island of lost maps
The island of lost maps: a true story of cartographic crime
2000, Random House
in English - 1st ed.

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Classifications

Library of Congress
Z702.B58 H37 2000b

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
432
Dimensions
7.7 x 5 x 1.2 inches
Weight
12 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7988296M
Internet Archive
islandoflostmaps0000harv
ISBN 10
0753813157
ISBN 13
9780753813157
Library Thing
15056
Goodreads
108763

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