Question 1: What essential tool is required to bring a Union Pacific freight train, with a potential weight of 1.2 million pounds to an unplanned and unexplained, grinding halt? Answer: a single red Sharpie of course. Question 2: How do you convince the Under-Secretary of Illustration and Design at the Smithsonian Institute that you are... Continue Reading →
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime By Miles Harvey
By Jesse Roberts Miles Harvey is an American journalist and writer with an inherent fascination with maps. The Island of Lost Maps is his most well known work to date and guides the reader through the turbulent world of cartographic crime. The central theme of the book is the story of how map thief, Joseph... Continue Reading →
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