Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (43 page)

Arthur, Chester A.,
240

Association of American Geographers,
14
,
47
–48

atlases

author’s childhood collection of,
6
,
246

etymology of “atlas,”
68

future of,
234
–36

in the Library of Congress,
59

as onetime status symbol,
100

read by geography bee kids,
129

See also
road atlases;
and specific atlas titles and cartographers

Atlas of the DC Universe,
112

Attu,
153

Auden, W. H.,
14

augmented reality,
230
–31

Avatar,
loser fans of,
107

Baarle-Hartog, Belgium,
64

Balchin, William,
51

Barrie, J. M.,
108

Bar-Zeev, Avi,
225

Bay of the West,
83
–
84

Baynes, Pauline,
115

Beagle Conflict,
63
,
67

Beckett, Samuel,
9

bees,
25

Bein, Rick,
41
,
49

Benson,
oddly terrifying episode of,
135

Bentley, E. C.,
78

Betjeman, John,
14

Bible,
9
,
101

contrasted with Tom Cochrane song,
28

Billep, Klaus,
150
,
152
–53,
159
–60

Billington Sea,
87

Bir Tawil,
4

birds,
22
–23,
24

Black, Lynn,
207
–9

Blaeu, Willem,
81,
83

Bland, Gilbert,
94

Blij, Harm de,
18
,
50
–51,
54

Board on Geographic Names,
67
–68,
72

Bohbot, Véronique,
233

Bokke, Lee van der,
205
–8

borders,
2
,
62
–67

Borges, Jorge Luis,
212

Borman, Laurie,
244

Botticelli, Sandro, goofy hobbies of,
28

Bozanich, Mark,
166
–68,
170
,
172
–73

Bramley, Bart,
180
,
183
,
185

Breezewood, Pennsylvania,
170

Brin, Sergey,
215

Brink, John Garrett,
176

Bruner, Jerome,
52

Bryson, Bill,
174

Bunyan, John,
28

Burgess, Gelett,
117

Burke, Edmund,
45

Burton, Richard Francis,
90

cabinets of curiosities,
98

California mapped as an island,
83

Cameron, James,
107

Carroll, Allen,
234

Carroll, Lewis,
212
–13

Carson, Johnny,
34

Cassini, Giovanni,
88

cartacacoethes,
6
,
8
,
28

cartifacts,
74
,
102
–3

cartophilia,
243
–49

American vs. British,
174
–75

earliest origins of,
99
–100

as embarrassing social handicap,
10
–11,
138
,
244
–45

as obsessive-compulsive,
124
,
135
,
206
–7

as result of spatial gift,
16
–17,
123
–24,
243
,
246

as yearning for stability,
135
–37,
247

See also
maps: appeal of

Castlereagh, Lord Viscount,
149

Çatalhöyük mural,
7
–
8

censorship of maps,
92
–93

Cheney, Dick, blurry domesticity of,
218

chloropleth maps,
8
,
107

cities and towns

geocaching in,
209

humorously named,
68
–71

most common U.S. names of,
31

navigating,
18

nonexistent,
109
–
110,
224

underpopulated,
3
,
4

Civil War,
50

Clarke, Keith,
16

clerihew (poem),
78

climate change,
51
,
84

Clinton, Bill,
187

cognitive maps,
20
–21,
23
–25

Cohen, Sacha Baron,
36
,
37

Cohen & Taliaferro,
91
–92,
94
–95

collecting,
149
,
168
,
247
.
See also
maps: collectors of; travel, systematic

Coleman, Alice,
51

Columbus, Christopher,
16
,
76
–77,
85
,
87
,
90
,
240

comic books, gratuitous references to,
1
,
8
,
44
,
83
,
95
,
112
,
200

compass rose,
8

Conant, James,
46

Conrad, Joseph,
3

continental drift,
68

control cities,
168

Cooper, Gordon,
26

Coyne, Wayne, clothed online bathing of,
227

Crimean War,
50

Curtis, Jim,
35

Curzon, George,
90

Cvijić, Jovan,
207

Dante Alighieri,
28

Darwin, Charles,
9
,
79

Davidson, Russ,
150

D-Day,
59

Dedalus, Stephen,
13

Dee, John,
99

Degree Confluence Project,
237
–40

Delaware, surprising exoticness of,
30
–31

Delvoye, Wim,
110

Denali,
67

Die Hard,
ageless wisdom of,
242

Dildo, Newfoundland,
70

Discovery
(ship),
90

Discworld
(Pratchett),
118

Divine Comedy, The
(Dante),
28

Dobson, Jerome,
227
–28

Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge.
See
Carroll, Lewis

Downs, Roger,
139

Drummond, Bill,
242

Earth, seen from orbit,
25
–26,
65
–
66,
214
,
217
,
220
,
225

Echo & the Bunnymen,
242

Eco, Umberto,
212
–13

Eddings, David,
115
–16

Eden, Garden of,
85
,
120

education,
10
,
41
,
45
–55,
133
–34,
146
,
173

Eisenhower, Dwight,
168
–69

Elden, Mary Lee,
124
,
126
,
131
–32,
134
,
137
,
141
,
146

Émile
(Rousseau),
59

encyclopedias, collapse of sales,
234

epidemiology,
59

Eratosthenes,
90

Everest, Mount,
89
,
119
,
149
,
156

EverQuest,
112

exploration

destroyer of mystery,
85
,
219
,
242
–43

fundamental nerdiness of,
90
–91

in an overexplored world,
119
–120,
149
,
158
–59,
199
–200,
230
,
238
,
242
–43

See also specific explorers

Extra Miler Club,
11

fantasy literature,
113
–21

Farrow, Mia,
193

Faulkner, William,
119