Holds are growing for a book about the love of maps by the 74-time Jeopardy! winner, Ken Jennings, called Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks. He was interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air yesterday.
Unsurprisingly, he’s a big fan of the the maps division of the Library of Congress. He talks about being awestruck when he toured it.
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| Retail Price: |
$25.00 |
| Hardcover: |
288 pages |
| Publisher: |
Scribner – (2011-09-20) |
| ISBN / EAN: |
1439167176 / 9781439167175 |
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