Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (45 page)

maphead friends of,
10
,
20
–21,
108
–9,
244

nerdy college roommates of,
11
,
113

Pacific Northwest native,
14
,
30
–31

parents of,
1
,
6
,
29
–30,
93
,
246

potentially mistaken for pedophile,
200

in Seoul,
15
,
29
–31,
44
,
72
,
93
,
151

travels of,
18
–19,
65
,
69
,
151

Jennings, Mindy,
91
,
155
,
181
–82,
193
,
244

essential goodness and purity of,
18

shitty sense of direction of,
17
–19,
140
–41

Jeopardy!,
15
,
39
–40,
125
,
128

Jerimoth Hill,
156

jigsaw puzzles,
9
,
102

Johnson, Boris,
136

Jordan, Robert,
113

Joyce, James,
13

Judaism,
101

Keats, John,
118

Kennedy, John F.,
43

Kenton, Oklahoma,
164

Keyhole.
See
Google Earth

Kissinger, Henry,
37

Klinghoffer, Arthur Jay,
43

“Knowledge, The,”
17

Kong, Mountains of,
84
–85

Korea.
See
Jennings, Ken: in Seoul; North Korea; South Korea

Las Casas, Bartolomé de,
16
,
76

Late Night with David Letterman,
38

Lewis, C. S.,
115

Lewis, G. Malcolm,
17

Lewis, Peirce,
14
,
49

Liben, Lynn,
51
–52,
139
–41

libraries,
93
–96,
103

Library of Congress Geography and Map Division,
55
–63,
74
–78

ginormous-ness of,
58
–59

holdings of, highlights,
58
,
62
–63,
74

origins of,
59

patrons of,
60
–63,
74

literature, maps in,
3
,
105
–8,
113
–21,
212
–13

Livingstone, David,
79

Llanfairpwll, Wales,
69

location-based technologies,
225
–28,
230
–31

Lockley, R. M.,
22

London Map Fair,
79
–86,
90

London Underground,
136

Long, Stephen,
87

Longacre, Jack,
155
,
165

longitude,
86
,
240

Lopez, Mario, kindness to airheads of,
38

Lord of the Rings, The
(Tolkien),
114
,
119

lost, getting
17
,
19
,
51
,
232
–33,
236

Louis XIV,
88

Lynch, Jessica,
51

Macedonia, Greece calling “dibsies” on,
72

Mad Men,
41
–42

Mallory, George,
156

Manuel I of Portugal,
92

maps

in academic geography,
47
–49

allegorical,
26
–28,
27

antique,
74
–86,
91
–104,
120
,
148

appeal of,
2
–4,
9
,
29
,
57
,
68
,
82
,
99
–100,
104
,
135
–37,
242
,
245
–47

armchair exploration of,
3
–4,
17
,
148
,
160
,
165

and art,
99
–100,
110

and children,
2
–3,
9
–11,
19
–20,
43
–45,
57
,
107
–12,
122
–24,
135
–37,
142
,
146
,
167
–68,
173
,
248
–49

censorship of,
92
–93

chloropleth,
8
,
107

collectors of,
79
–84,
90
,
91
–92,
94
–104,
247

deconstructing,
47
,
220
–24

and detail,
2
–3,
102
,
174
–75,
212
–13

digital,
86
,
213
–221,
224
–236,
245
–46

earliest,
7
–8,
20
–21

gas station,
176

and gender,
139
–41

hypsometric,
6
–7

illiteracy (
see
geographic illiteracy)

imaginary features on,
68
,
83
–85,
120
,
224

importance to human achievement,
9
–10,
16
,
59
,
78

innateness of,
19
–20,
25
–29,
123
–24

in literature,
3
,
105
–8,
113
–21,
212
–13

mental,
20
–21,
23
–25

as metaphor for life,
28

military,
58
,
59
,
60
–61,
82

and national identity,
64
,
71
–73,
75
,
78
,
136

oddities on,
2
–4,
68
–71,
83
–85,
93
,
117
,
153
,
156
,
161
,
167
,
170
,
237
–39,
242
–43

old-timeyness of,
7
,
41
–42,
236

and power,
64
,
136
,
162

rallying,
177
–85

thefts of,
93
–97

treasure,
62
,
248
–
49

of unreal territory,
28
,
105
–21,
243

upside down,
52
–54,
53,
140

versatility of,
25
,
74
,
226
,
236

See also
atlases; cartophilia; geography

Mapparium,
222

Marshall Islands,
20
,
21

Mauritania, not coterminous with Mauritius,
37

Mauritius, not coterminous with Mauritania,
37

Mayda,
84
–85

Mayflower,
72
,
87

Mazzeo, Rosario, poor animal care by,
22

McArthur, Stuart,
53

McCain, John, senility of,
37

McClendon, Brian,
126
–27,
214
–221,
224
–25

McDonald’s,
156
–57

McKinley, Mount.
See
Denali.
Take that, Ohio.