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The Island of Lost Maps : a True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey; Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Island of Lost Maps : a True Story of Cartographic Crime about?

"The Island of Lost Maps is 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 the Al Capone of cartography, a man with the unlikely name of Gilbert Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from south Florida whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation went virtually undetected until he was caught in December 1995.". "This is also the story of author Miles Harvey's quest to understand America's greatest map thief, a chameleon who changed careers and families without ever looking back. Gilbert Bland was a cipher, a blank slate - for Harvey, journalistic terra incognita. Filling in Bland's life was like filling in a map, and grew from an investigation into an intellectual adventure."--BOOK JACKET.

Who reads The Island of Lost Maps : a True Story of Cartographic Crime?

Author

Miles Harvey; Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress)

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780767908269

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Reference, Fiction

Rating

3.63 / 5 (96 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14