THE ISLAND OF LOST MAPS: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
by Harvey, Miles
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0753813157
- ISBN 13
- 9780753813157
- Seller
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Korumburra, Victoria, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
Miles Harvey began reporting on Gilbert Bland in 1996 for Outside magazine. He has worked for UPI and In These Times, and he was the book-review columnist for Outside. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the University of Michigan, he has had a lifelong fascination with maps. He can be reached via the Internet at www.milesharvey.com. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Diversity Books, IOBA (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014958
- Title
- THE ISLAND OF LOST MAPS: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
- Author
- Harvey, Miles
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0753813157
- ISBN 13
- 9780753813157
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8vo - (approx. 19.5cm x 13cm)
- Keywords
- History, Cartography, Maps, Theft, John Hopkins University, Gilbert Bland
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime;
Terms of Sale
Diversity Books, IOBA
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Diversity Books, IOBA
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.