The Island Of Lost Maps

The Island Of Lost Maps. The Map of LOST island. Six seasons of Locations and Journeys by Mike The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation had gone. The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada

The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation had. In The Island of Lost Maps, journalist Miles Harvey embarks on a journey, at once circuitous and compelling, into the dark heart of a map thief

The Island of Lost Maps by Miles Harvey, Hardcover Pangobooks

The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation had gone. Magazine journalist Harvey (Outside) charts the case of Gilbert Bland Jr., who in the 1990s stole vast amounts of rare material from some of North America's most prestigious research libraries and thus became "the greatest American map thief in history."In his map of Bland's life, Harvey leaves a few blank spaces—primarily because Bland refused interviews and threatened the author. Modern cartography began with the Dutch East India Company and their efforts to create charts of the Southwestern Pacific area

Mapping the Island of Lost Enhanced Maps. Random House (NY), $24.95 (432pp) ISBN 978--375-50151-7 In The Island of Lost Maps, a wonderfully rich excursion into the demimonde of what might be called cartographomania, Harvey follows Bland's tracks from library to library, reconstructing the crimes of the man he deems the Al Capone of map theft, following the contours of Bland's complex, sinister character

True Crime THE ISLAND OF LOST MAPS A TRUE STORY OF CARTOGRAPHIC CRIME. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation had gone. The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada