The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey

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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles HarveyISBN: 9780297842347 Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1 February 2001 Hardcover, 405 pages In December 1995 Gilbert Bland was chased from the rare book room of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, clutching a 232 year old map. He turned out to be one of the greatest map thieves in history. Miles Harvey traced Bland's journey from middle class anonymity to dark criminality, to understand what drove Bland to steal some of the rarest cartographic treasures in the

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