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It comes as no real surprise that, as a youngster, Jeopardy! star Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his cushion every evening. Maphead recounts his lifelong romance with geography and explores why maps have always been so interesting to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere you go. Jennings will take listeners on a world head to of geogeeks from the London Map Rational to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at Google Globe. Each section delves into another aspect of map culture: highpointing, geocaching, road atlas rallying, even the "unreal house" charted on the maps of fiction and fantasy. He also considers the ways that cartography has shaped our history, recommending that the impulse to make and read maps is as relevant today as it has ever before been. Through the "Here be dragons" parchment maps of age Breakthrough to the spinning globes of quality institution to the postmodern revolution of digital maps and GPS, Maphead is filled up with intriguing details, interesting anecdotes, and enlightening analysis. If you are an inveterate map lover yourself---or even if you're on the list of cartographically clueless who are able to get lost in a supermarket---let Ken Jennings be your guide to the peculiar world of mapheads.
