The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
by:
Miles Harvey (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780375501517 (0375501517)
Publish date: September 5th 2000
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 404
Edition language: English
bookshelves: published-2001, paper-read, books-about-books-and-book-shops, cover-love, true-grime, nonfiction, library-in-norway, one-penny-wonder, autumn-2012, skim-through, art-forms, history, mythology Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Gerry Recommended for: Map lovers called Wanda Read from June 08...
7/11 - I love a book about books, and while this doesn't actually appear to be a book about books, once I got reading I realised it is after all. This was origianally a book about maps (interesting enough to start with), but most of the maps Harvey talks about are located within books (or they were...
My isbn: 029784234xDedication: TO BOB; TINKER; AND MATTHEWTHE MAPSTO RENGIN AND AZIZETHE DESTINATIONSQuote:It is not down on any map;true places never are. Herman Melville, 'Moby Dick'Opening: Explorers pin maps to their walls; journalists tape stories to theirs. For both, doing so is a way of getti...
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