by Miles Harvey · Phoenix Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780753813157
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«The Island of Lost Maps» is Miles Harvey's true crime essay, published by Phoenix Paperbacks in paperback (405 pages, in English).
In December 1995, an incident with a 232-year-old map at Johns Hopkins University exposed Gilbert Bland as one of history's greatest map thieves. Miles Harvey reconstructs his life and thefts, and explores the underworld of cartography and the obsession that can lead to crime.
The full subtitle is A True Story of Cartographic Crime; the work was originally published in 2000 and this edition appeared in 2002.
For those who enjoy true crime, the history of cartography, and library thefts.
Miles Harvey is an American author of three works of nonfiction, The Island of Lost Maps, Painter in a Savage Land and The King of Confidence. He also wrote a collection of short stories, The Registry of Forgotten Objects, and a play "How Long Will I Cry," which premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago.
