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The Island of Lost Maps

A True Story of Cartographic Crime

Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1 Feb 2001)

9780297842347

| Hardcover

394 pages | 139 x 200 mm | English

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Dewey 910

Subject

Cartography
Libraries
Map Industry And Trade
Map Thefts
Theft

Plot

In what amounts to a historical adventure, this book tells of the power of maps, and of map-makers and map thieves from the 15th century to the present day, all of them gripped by an obsession both surreal and sublime.