Maphead Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

Name: Maphead Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
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ISBN: 9781439167182

ISBN-10: 1439167184

ISBN-13: 9781439167182

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Authors: Ken Jennings

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It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere.Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at Google Earth. Each chapter delves into a different aspect of map culture: highpointing, geocaching, road atlas rallying, even the “unreal estate” charted on the maps of fiction and fantasy. He also…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 4/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Ken Jennings cofounded ThirdRiver Partners to serve executives and organizations around the world. He has held leadership roles as a global managing partner at Accenture and was a codirector of the Global Leadership in Healthcare Program at the University of Michigan Business School. He is the coauthor of The Serving Leader.




Eccentricity



Bearing



Fault



Benchmarks



Elevation



Legend



Reckoning



Meander



Transit



Overedge



Frontier



Relief


Notes


Index


Reading Group Guide