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File name : Ebook maphead.pdf
Author by : ken jennings
Publisher by : scribner
Book Descriptions maphead charting the wide weird world of geography wonks is ken s followup to his 2005 best seller brainiac much as brainiac offered a behind the scenes look at the little known demimonde of competitive trivia buffs maphead finally gives equal time to that other downtrodden underclass america s map nerds in a world where geography only makes the headlines when college students are endlessly discovered to be bad at it these hardy souls somehow thrive some crisscross the map working an endless geographic checklist visiting all 3 143 u s counties for example or all 936 unesco world heritage sites some pore over million dollar collections of the rarest maps of the past others embrace the future by hunting real world cartographic treasures like geocaches or degree confluences with gps device in hand some even draw thousands of their own imaginary maps lovingly detailing worlds that never were ken jennings was a map nerd from a young age himself you will not be surprised to learn even sleeping with a bulky hammond atlas at the side of his pillow in lieu of the traditional teddy bear as he travels the nation meeting others of his tribe map librarians publishers roadgeeks pint sized national geographic bee prodigies the computer geniuses behind google maps and other geo technologies he comes to admire these geographic obsessives now that technology and geographic illiteracy are increasingly insulating us from the lay of the land around us we are going to be needing these people more than ever mapheads are the ones who always know exactly where they are and where everything else is as well
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