The Island of Lost Maps : A Story of Cartographic Crime, by Miles Harvey english

The Island of Lost Maps : A Story of Cartographic Crime, by Miles Harvey englishused, good condition 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 treasures in the world. Since men have drawn maps, others have stolen them. Columbus

September 2004 catalog

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