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Maphead Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks is Ken s followup to his 2005 best seller Brainiac Much as Brainiac offered a behind the scenes look at the little known demimonde of competitive trivia buffs, Maphead finally gives equal time to that other downtrodden underclass America s map nerds.In a world where geography only makes the headlines when college students are endlessly discovered to be bad at it, these hardy souls somehow thrive Some crisscross the map working an endless geographic checklist visiting all 3,143 U.S counties, for example, or all 936 UNESCO World Heritage Sites Some pore over million dollar collections of the rarest maps of the past others embrace the future by hunting real world cartographic treasures like geocaches or degree confluences with GPS device in hand Some even draw thousands of their own imaginary maps, lovingly detailing worlds that never were.Ken Jennings was a map nerd from a young age himself, you will not be surprised to learn, even sleeping with a bulky Hammond atlas at the side of his pillow, in lieu of the traditional Teddy bear As he travels the nation meeting others of his tribe map librarians, publishers, roadgeeks, pint sized National Geographic Bee prodigies, the computer geniuses behind Google Maps and other geo technologies he comes to admire these geographic obsessives Now that technology and geographic illiteracy are increasingly insulating us from the lay of the land around us, we are going to be needing these people than ever Mapheads are the ones who always know exactly where they are and where everything else is as well. Free Read [ Maphead ] Author [ Ken Jennings ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Stealing a thought line from the author, Ken Jennings, Jeopardy superstar, if you the type of person who walks into a room with a map hanging on the wall and you immediately head to the mapyou must read this book I love maps, all kinds and found this book to be utterly fascinating So, if blue was favorite category in Trivial Pursuit and you often find yourself exploring the world via Google Earth and its maps, then you, Ken Jennings and I have something in common and this book, while it doe Stealing a thought line from the author, Ken Jennings, Jeopardy superstar, if you the type of person who walks into a room with a map hanging on the wall and you immediately h...True story my husband and I met because of a geography bee I was the seventh grade Geography Bee champion at our middle school he was the eighth grade champion We went head to head for several rounds, but ultimately he bested me he knew that quinine was used to treat malaria, and I did not I got my revenge, though, in a way he did not qualify for the state geography bee, but the following year, when I became the school champion, I DID And believe me some twenty years later, I sti True story my husband and I met because of a geography bee I was the seventh grade Geography Bee champion at our middle school he was the eighth grade champion We went head to head ...3.5 starsA quick read, similar in format and informality to Ken s inauguralBrainiac Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffsbook All twelve chapter titles included a cartographic definition together with a quote For example, the first chapter entitled Eccentricity with the definition the deformation of an elliptical map projection and the Pat Conroy quote My wound is geography My favorite chapter falls in the center, halfway from nowhere to somewhere, 3.5 starsA quick read, similar in format and informality to Ken s inauguralBrainiac Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffsbook All twelve chapter titles included a cartographic definition together with a quote For example, the first chapter entitled Eccentricity with the definition the deformation of an elliptical map projection and the Pat Conroy quote My wound is geography My favorite chapter falls in the center, halfway from nowhere to somewhere, Chapter 6 Legend with a definition of an explanatory list of the symbols on a map and the C.S Lewis quote Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country, but for most of us it is only an imaginar...It at least got me to look up some stuff on some maps that I am embarrassed to admit I had no clue about.Ken Jennings of Jeopardy fame delivers a fantastic sampling of the geo geekdom From map lovers where it starts to geography bees to road geeks, to obsessive travel, to geo cachers to Google Earth s transformation of the paper to cyber world of finding where you are and devoting a great deal of energy to it Jennings is entertaining, literate if not annoying in his constant referrals to pop culture as well as history but most of all he, like me, LOVES maps And if you LOVE maps, this is a Ken Jennings of Jeopardy fame delivers a fantastic sampling of the geo geekdom From map lovers where it starts to geog... Maphead is a wonderful work revelling in nerdery of the geography kind All of those like myself who spent hours as a child poring over atlases, lose afternoons on Google maps or Google Earth and own a globe that is not of the Earth should adore this book.It celebrates a certain type of nerdery that a lot of us share but hardly ever discuss I m not the only one who can go on a mini holiday with a map and my imagination I m not the only one to dream of psuedo real places that stay with me for y Maphead is a wonderful work revelling in nerdery of the geography kind All of those like myself who spent hours as a child poring over atlases, lose afternoons on Google maps or Google Earth and own a globe that is not of the Earth should adore this book.It celebrates a certain type of nerdery that a lot of us share but hardly ever discuss I m not the only one who can go on a mini holiday with a map and my imagination ...I thought this was great, but I am a bit of a map nerd myself And by bit of, I mean I am a humongous map nerd This is my most frequent tool of procrastination I sit at the library when I should be doing work and I read the atlas I ve been doing it for years When I am supposed to be doing work on the computer I am often tracing routes on google maps to local and far flung donut shops When I am driving places with friends I tend to read their road atlases when I probably should be talking I thought this was great, but I am a bit of a map nerd myself And by bit of, I mean I am a humongous map nerd This is my most frequent tool of procrastination I sit at the library when I should be doing work and I read the atlas I ve been doing it for years When I am supposed to be doing work on the computer I am often tracing routes on google maps to local and far flung donut shops When I am driving places with friends I tend to read their road atlases when I probably should be talking to them I am terrible I will say, Ken it s funny that I feel so familiar with Ken because I watched him on Jeopardy He must meet people who think they know him all the time , Ken maybe fills this with just a hair too many bad jokes Espec...As someone who has participated in car rallies, did the semi obligatory post college backpacking trip around Europe, and finally relented to using a smartphone mainly for the GPS, I know the allure and interest of navigating the wide, weird world around us But holy cow, do I not know it in the ways explored in this book The mild pleasure I take in being my family s navigator is nothing compared to the delight found by collectors, quiz kids, geocachers, and travelers who truly dig on mapping, m As someone who has participated in car rallies, did the semi obligatory post college backpacking trip around Europe, and finally relented to using a smartphone mainly for the GPS, I know the allure and interest of navigating the wide, weird world around us But holy cow, do I not know it in the ways explored in this book The mild pleasure I take in being my family s navigator is nothing compa...If a book about maps and the people who love them written by the snarky Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings sounds like the kind of book you would like, then what are you waiting for Go get this book immediately.If it doesn t sound like the kind of book you would like, then I would urge you to reconsider As fans of his blog or his televisi...Si no hubiese estudiado administraci n, yo habr a sido ge grafo Este dato, que conocen bastante en mi casa, procede quiz de que uno de los grandes sue os de mi vida es ser un escritor de libros de viajes Tengo un drive de wanderlust exagerado siempre quiero estar en un lugar distinto al que estoy Siempre que piso el aeropuerto de esta ciudad de regreso de un viaje termino pensando no viajo lo suficiente Y mi presencia en esta red social habla de otra gran parte de m que a ora viajar Si no hubiese estudiado administraci n, yo habr a sido ge grafo Este dato, que conocen bastante en mi casa, procede quiz de que uno de los grandes sue os de mi vida es ser un escritor de libros de viajes Tengo un drive de wanderlust exagerado siempre quiero estar en un lugar distinto al que estoy Siempre q...

Maphead
  • English
  • 16 April 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 276 pages
  • 1439167176
  • Ken Jennings
  • Maphead