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The Island of Lost Maps: A Story of Cartographic Crime
The Island of Lost Maps A Story of Cartographic Crime
Author: Miles Harvey
In December 1995 Gilbert Bland was chased from the rare book room of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, clutching a 232-year-old map. He turned out to be one of the greatest map thieves in history. Miles Harvey traced Bland's journey from middle-class anonymity to dark criminality, to understand what drove Bland to steal some of the rarest ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780297842347
ISBN-10: 029784234X
Publication Date: 2/1/2001
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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