The Island Of Lost Maps
by Harvey, Miles
Miles Harvey began reporting on Gilbert Bland in 1996 for Outside magazine. He has worked for UPI and In These Times, and he was the book-review columnist for Outside. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the University of Michigan, he has had a lifelong fascination with maps. He can be reached via the Internet at www.milesharvey.com.From the Hardcover edition.
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New York: Random House, 2000. 8vo size trade paperback; 390 bright, white pages. From back: "A true story of a man named Bland, the greatest map thief in American history... the writer who pursued him ... and the lure of the unknown" Edgewear, worn top corners, some light soil to outside pages, the last four page tips… Read more about this item Item Price
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London England: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001. hardback. Very slight foxing to edge. In December 1995 Gilbert Bland was chased from the Peabody Library of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, clutching four 232 -year-old maps. He turned out to be one of the greatest map thieves in history. The author has spent four years tracing Bland's journey from middle-class anonymity to… Read more about this item Item Price
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