Maphead

Author: Ken Jennings
Edition: Unabridged,MP3 - Unabridged CD
Binding: Audio CD
ISBN: 1452654379

Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Download Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere.Jennings takes listeners on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at Google Earth. Each chapter delves into a different aspect of map culture: highpointing, geocaching, road atlas rallying, even the "unreal estate" charted on the maps of fiction and fantasy. He also considers the ways in which cartography has shap Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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