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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks By Jennings, Ken 2012-04 - Scribner Book Company 9781439167182 Check Our Catalog New York Times bestselling author and Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives. …More

Maiden Voyage By Aebi, Tania With Brennan, Bernadette 1996-09 - Ballantine Books 9780345410122 Check Our Catalog Tania Aebe was an eighteen-year-old dropout and barfly. She was going nowhere until her father offered her a challenge. He would offer her either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop in which she had to sail around the world alone. She chose the boat and for two years it was her home, as she negotiated weather, illness, fear, and ultimately, a spiritual quest that brought her home to herself.... "From the Paperback edition. …More

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time By Sobel, Dava 2007-10 - Walker & Company 9780802715296 Check Our Catalog Sobel presents the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of John Harrison's 40-year obsession with building the perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. …More

The Scale of Maps By Gopegui, Belen Translator Schafer, Mark 2011-01 - City Lights Books 9780872865105 Check Our Catalog A novel and its protagonist create one another, in a tale strung between the work of Cervantes and Nabokov. …More

The Islanders By Priest, Christopher 2012-01 - Gollancz 9780575078192 Check Our Catalog British novelist Priest (The Prestige) creates a mind-bending, head-scratching book (already much lauded in the U.K.) that pretends to be a gazetteer of the Dream Archipelago, uncountable islands spread around a world whose temporal and spatial anomalies make such a project futile. …More

Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will By Schalansky, Judith Translator Lo, Christine 2010-10 - Penguin Books 9780143118206 Check Our Catalog Visually stunning and uniquely designed, this wondrous book captures 50 islands that are far away in every sense--from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures. …More

On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks By Garfield, Simon 2012-12 - Gotham Books 9781592407798 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of "Just My Type" reveals the fascinating relationship between man and map. From the early explorers' maps and the awe-inspiring medieval Mappa Mundi to Google Maps and the satellite renderings on our smartphones, Garfield explores the unique way that maps relate and realign our history. …More