The map thief

Auteurs

• Michael Blanding

Paramètres

• 603 pages
• 22 heures de lecture

• Biographies et réflexions
• Cartes et voyages
• Fiction
• Histoire
• Nonfiction

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Maps have long elicited a special fascination -- both as practical tools and as beautiful works of art. But to collectors the map trade can be cutthroat, with quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. This is the story of antiquarian map dealer E. Forbes Smiley, who for years doubled as a map thief until he was finally arrested for slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library.

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• Année de publication: 2014