The Island Of Lost Maps

Author : Miles Harvey
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030776656X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Island of Lost Maps written by Miles Harvey and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation had gone virtually undetected until he was caught in 1995–and was unmasked as the most prolific American map thief in history. As Miles Harvey unravels the mystery of Bland’s life, he maps out the world of cartography and cartographic crime, weaving together a fascinating story of exploration, craftsmanship, villainy, and the lure of the unknown.

Author : Miles Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Island of Lost Maps written by Miles Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boken tar blant annet for seg et tidlig stadium av kartlaging så vel som kleptomani, biblioteksikring og de store auksjonshusenes innflytelse ved å mer eller mindre indirekte oppmuntre til ødeleggelse og tyveri ved sin prissetting av sjeldne objekter, der ødelagte objekter kan være mer verdt enn intakte. Bakgrunnen for dette er at i 1995 ble en mann arrestert på biblioteket i Baltimore, USA, for å ha stjålet kart fra sjeldne bøker. Han var ingen student, snarere kartoman. Hvordan kunne landegrensene sett ut dersom slike kart ikke hadde forsvunnet gjennom tidene? Forord, innholdsfortegnelse, register.

Author : Yossef Rapoport
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022654088X
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Maps of the Caliphs written by Yossef Rapoport and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The Book of Curiosities, was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable manuscript copy surfaced in 2000. Lost Maps of the Caliphs provides the first general overview of The Book of Curiosities and the unique insight it offers into medieval Islamic thought. Opening with an account of the remarkable discovery of the manuscript and its purchase by the Bodleian Library, the authors use The Book of Curiosities to re-evaluate the development of astrology, geography, and cartography in the first four centuries of Islam. Their account assesses the transmission of Late Antique geography to the Islamic world, unearths the logic behind abstract maritime diagrams, and considers the palaces and walls that dominate medieval Islamic plans of towns and ports. Early astronomical maps and drawings demonstrate the medieval understanding of the structure of the cosmos and illustrate the pervasive assumption that almost any visible celestial event had an effect upon life on Earth. Lost Maps of the Caliphs also reconsiders the history of global communication networks at the turn of the previous millennium. It shows the Fatimid Empire, and its capital Cairo, as a global maritime power, with tentacles spanning from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus Valley and the East African coast. As Lost Maps of the Caliphs makes clear, not only is The Book of Curiosities one of the greatest achievements of medieval mapmaking, it is also a remarkable contribution to the story of Islamic civilization that opens an unexpected window to the medieval Islamic view of the world.

Author : Michael Blanding
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592409407
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Map Thief written by Michael Blanding and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture that consumed him Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief —until he was finally arrested slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. The Map Thief delves into the untold history of this fascinating high-stakes criminal and the inside story of the industry that consumed him. Acclaimed reporter Michael Blanding has interviewed all the key players in this stranger-than-fiction story, and shares the fascinating histories of maps that charted the New World, and how they went from being practical instruments to quirky heirlooms to highly coveted objects. Though pieces of the map theft story have been written before, Blanding is the first reporter to explore the story in full—and had the rare privilege of having access to Smiley himself after he’d gone silent in the wake of his crimes. Moreover, although Smiley swears he has admitted to all of the maps he stole, libraries claim he stole hundreds more—and offer intriguing clues to prove it. Now, through a series of exclusive interviews with Smiley and other key individuals, Blanding teases out an astonishing tale of destruction and redemption. The Map Thief interweaves Smiley’s escapades with the stories of the explorers and mapmakers he knew better than anyone. Tracking a series of thefts as brazen as the art heists in Provenance and a subculture as obsessive as the oenophiles in The Billionaire’s Vinegar, Blanding has pieced together an unforgettable story of high-stakes crime.

Author : I.N. Phelps Stokes
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5871799507
Total Pages : 807 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The iconography of Manhattan Island written by I.N. Phelps Stokes and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1915 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps, plans, views, and documents in public and private collections

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Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book ARC User written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 798 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings and transactions of the Royal Society of Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Royal Society of Canada
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book Déliberations Et Mémoires de la Société Royale Du Canada written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Royal Society of Canada
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernest Ingersoll
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book Explorers Journal written by Ernest Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: