Read Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks Online
Authors: Ken Jennings
Tags: #General, #Social Science, #Technology & Engineering, #Reference, #Atlases, #Cartography, #Human Geography, #Atlases & Gazetteers, #Trivia
Mellaart, James
7
Mercator, Gerardus,
45
,
68
,
86
,
221
Minster, Joel,
235
–36
Miss Teen USA,
38
Mistborn
(Sanderson),
113
,
117
,
118
mondegreens,
106
Monmonier, Mark,
47
Monroe, Marilyn,
36
Monty Python,
90
–91
More, Thomas,
119
Moss, Kate,
162
MostTraveledPeople.com
,
158
–59,
163
–64
Muensterberger, Werner,
247
Muggles,
199
–200
Narnia,
115
National Enquirer,
35
National Geographic Atlas of the World,
72
–73,
234
National Geographic Bee,
124
–47
finals,
141
–45
and gender,
138
–41
preparation for,
127
–29
and race,
138
National Geographic Society,
6
,
11
,
54
–55,
73
,
83
,
124
,
126
,
137
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency,
60
national parks,
157
and geocaching,
201
navigation.
See
GPS: navigation; wayfinding
Nebenzahl, Ken,
80
neckties,
102
–3
New Moore Island,
84
Nixon, Richard,
37
North Korea,
66,
151
Notes from a Small Island
(Bryson),
174
obstetrics, maps and,
245
OpenStreetMap,
228
–30
Ordnance Survey,
176
Ortelius, Abraham,
68
Page, Larry,
227
paintball, invented by Lewis Carroll,
213
Palin, Michael,
90
–91
path integration,
23
–24
Peace Corps,
43
Pepys, Samuel,
99
Perry, Matthew,
72
Persian Gulf,
72
–73
Peter Pan
(Barrie),
108
Peters, Arno,
222
–23
Philip’s (map publisher),
6
Phillippe, Ryan,
193
Photo-Auto Guides,
175
photography,
168
,
239
–40.
See also
aerial photogrammetry
Pike, Zebulon,
87
pilgrimage,
148
–49
Pilgrim’s Progress, The
(Bunyan),
28
Pitcairn Island,
152
place-names.
See
toponyms
Plessis, Denis Martineau du,
36
Poe, Edgar Allan,
184
POI (points of interest),
211
,
231
Poison, two-armed drummer from,
193
Pokémons, more interesting than actual animals,
45
populations,
4
Port-au-Prince, 2010 earthquake,
228
–30,
229
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A
(Joyce),
13
Potter, Jonathan,
82
Powers of Ten,
214
Pratchett, Terry,
118
Preuss, Charles,
247
Prime Meridian,
240
projections,
64
,
77
–78,
221
–24,
223
pronunciation of place-names,
73
Proust, Marcel,
73
pundits,
89
“Purloined Letter, The” (Poe),
184
quadrangle maps,
60
Rademacher, Paul,
226
–27
Rand McNally,
175
–77,
234
–36,
244
,
246
corporate history of,
175
–76,
234
–35
Simpsons
joke about,
36
Reagan, Ronald,
68
Remembrance of Things Past
(Proust),
73
Rennell, James,
89
Rhodes, Cecil,
207
rhumb lines,
221
Ringmann, Matthias,
76
road atlases,
148
,
160
,
167
,
175
–77,
235
–36
in map rallies,
177
–85
as archaeologists,
172
and the Internet,
168
public servants,
171
–72
Robinson, Arthur,
222
Rockall,
161
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead
(Stoppard),
42
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
49
Royal Geographical Society,
75
,
79
,
89
–91
Rumsey, David,
98
Salman, Benjamin,
109
–12,
129
–31,
134
,
137
Saltonstall, Wye,
45
Sanderson, Brandon,
113
–14,
116
–19
sandwich, Earth,
240
–42
Scripps National Spelling Bee,
124
,
146
–47
selective availability,
187
Seoul, South Korea.
See under
Jennings, Ken
Seven Cities of Gold,
85
Sexmoan, Philippines,
70
Shackleton, Ernest,
90
Shultz, George, leaky deck of,
98
Shuster, Bud,
170
Simpsons, The,
36
Sims, John and Ashley,
140
Sinclair, Jim and Sue,
177
–81,
183
–84
Singh, Nain,
89
Sloane, Hans,
98
Smiley, E. Forbes III,
93
–96
Snaring, Caitlin,
127
–31,
137
,
142
,
146
snickerdoodle recipes.
See a cookbook
Snow, John,
59
social studies,
41
South Korea
map conflicts with Japan,
62
,
72
seen from space,
66
See also
Jennings, Ken: in Seoul
Spafford, John,
166
–68,
172
–73,
182
spatial cognition,
16
–29,
51
–52,
233
Speer, Albert,
58
Stanley, Henry Morton,
79