'A delightful mix of lore and reportage that illuminates the longing to know where we are' Publishers Weekly (starred review) Mapheads are the ones who always know exactly where they are-and where everything else is as well. Now that technology and geographic illiteracy are increasingly insulating us from the lay of the land around us, we are going to be needing these people more than ever. As he travels the nation meeting others of his tribe-map librarians, publishers, 'roadgeeks,' pint-sized National Geographic Bee prodigies, the computer geniuses behind Google Maps and other geo-technologies-he comes to admire these geographic obsessives.

Ken Jennings was a map nerd from a young age himself, you will not be surprised to learn, even sleeping with a bulky Hammond atlas at the side of his pillow, in lieu of the traditional Teddy bear. Some even draw thousands of their own imaginary maps, lovingly detailing worlds that never were. Some pore over million-dollar collections of the rarest maps of the past others embrace the future by hunting real-world cartographic treasures like 'geocaches' or 'degree confluences' with GPS device in hand. counties, for example, or all 936 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Some crisscross the map working an endless geographic checklist: visiting all 3,143 U.S. In a world where geography only makes the headlines when college students are (endlessly) discovered to be bad at it, these hardy souls somehow thrive. Much as Brainiac offered a behind-the-scenes look at the little-known demimonde of competitive trivia buffs, Maphead finally gives equal time to that other downtrodden underclass: America's map nerds. OL19710100W Pages 170 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200914161801 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 657 Scandate 20200909132609 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781442498488 Tts_version 4.Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks is Ken's followup to his 2005 best-seller Brainiac.

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