Sobre El Autor
Michael Blanding is a Boston-based investigative journalist, whose has appeared in The New York Times, Wired, State, The Boston Globe Magazine, Boston magazine, and other publications. He is author of The Map Thief, a New York Times bestseller and an NPR Book of the Year; and The Coke Machine. A mostrar más former writing fellow at Brandeis University and The Harvard Kennedy School, he has taught feature writing at Tufts University, Emerson College, and GrubStreet Writers. mostrar menos
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th Century
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Organizaciones
- Brandeis University (Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism|senior fellow)
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I always pore over maps in books, I can't pass a globe without checking certain borders, I really enjoy anything that explores boundaries and liminal environments. So I found this an interesting topic, or at least I felt a bit of outrage any time someone razored a map out of a book. Still, I'm not sure I'd want to close-read this book. Great for listening to with less than full attention while I did other tasks.
This book scratched a very specific and nerdy itch for me. It had everything: intrigue, map history, map theft history, a GIS librarian, name-checking places I’ve worked, and above all else, the heroics of cataloging.
Interesting from a historical perspective. The theft and capture was kind of a snoozefest.
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Miembros
- 761
- Popularidad
- #33,429
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 64
- ISBNs
- 36
- Idiomas
- 1
After contracting with the contractor...
While paying more than he wanted to pay...
A map is a document that documents...
The Boston Public made public...
Arrgh! Where was the editor?