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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 a rare book room of Johns Hopkins University, 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 cartographic tre...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780753813157
ISBN-10: 0753813157
Publication Date: 1/10/2002
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Publisher: Orion Pub Co
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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