The island of lost maps
a true story of cartographic crime
by Miles Harvey
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"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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Early maps, Special collections, Libraries, Maps, Map thefts, Collectors and collecting, History, Large type books, Cartography, Map industry and trade, Theft, Diefstal, Kaarten (geografie), Diebstahl, Kartografie, Karte, Early maps, collectors and collecting, Libraries, special collections, Cartography, historyPeople
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The Island of Lost Maps
January 10, 2002, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Paperback
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0753813157 9780753813157
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The Island of Lost Maps
February 1, 2001, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Hardcover
029784234X 9780297842347
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The island of lost maps: a true story of cartographic crime
2001, Broadway Books
in English
- 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed.
0767908260 9780767908269
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The island of lost maps: a true story of cartographic crime
2001, GK Hall, Thorndike Press
in English
0783893892 9780783893891
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The island of lost maps: a true story of cartographic crime
2000, Random House
in English
- 1st ed.
0375501517 9780375501517
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-394) and index.
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