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Description edit
New York Times bestselling author and well-known Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives.
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Characters/People edit
- Dylan: Add a description of this character.
- Mindy: Ken's geographically challenged wife
- David Helgren
- Brandon
- Brian McClendon
- Forbes Smiley
- Mcnally
- Jim
- Alex Trebek: Jeopardy! Host.
- Charles
- Benjamin Salman
- Phil Simon
- John Hébert
- Leonard Rothman
- Dave Ulmer
- Sarah
- Rodger
- Daniel: Ken's accented GPS
- Mary Lee Elden
- Chris Guillebeau
- Van Der Bokke
- Mark
- Amerigo Vespucci: Early explorer with great early PR.
- Lewis
- Hammond
- Jerome Bruner
- Garriott
- Ronald Reagan
- Lilly Gaskin
- Joseph Fischer
- Richard Ankrom
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Wim Delvoye
- Paul Cohen
- Todd
- Wayne Coyne
- Charles Darwin
- Karen Keller
- John Smith
- John Spafford
- Robert Scott
- Bart Bramley
- Lynn S. Liben
- Shantan Krovvidi
- Dante
- Richard Nixon
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Nikki
- Alex. Arjun
- John Keats
- Nicholas Farnsworth
- Rod Ritchie
- Eric Yang
- Dan Ratner
- Hans Sloane
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Lewis Carroll
- Abraham Ortelius
- John Noble Wilford
- Mark Monmonier
- Austin Tappan Wright
- Gelett Burgess
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Jonathan Potter
- C. S. Lewis
- Marcel Proust
- Sylvia Wright
- Louise McGregor
- George Mallory
- Aileen Yang
- Mike Parker
- Lynn Black
- Traci
- Ze Frank
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Jack Longacre
- James Rennell
- David Uttal
- Caitlin Snaring
- Howard Wilson
- Jerome Dobson
- Kenji Golimlim
- Klaus Billep
- Martin Waldseemüller
- Dr. Alan Hogenauer
- Jeremy Irish
- Peirce Lewis
- Christopher Columbus
- Craig Noland
- Nain Singh
- Hitler
- Anders Knospe
- Edmund Hillary
- John Glenn
- Paul Rademacher
- Bryan Fix
- Mike Teague
- Charles Veley
- Ian Harvey
- Arthur Jay Klinghoffer
- Sarah Palin
- Shackleton
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Harbison
- Kennen Sparks
- Isaac Stewart
- Ptolemy
- Jessica Lynch
- Bryant Gumbel
- Rob Covey
- Barack Obama
- Gerardus Mercator
- James Cameron
- Ashley Sims
- Vansh Jain
- Henry Kissinger
- Peter Holden
- Ed Hall
- J. M. Barrie
- James Joyce
- Jan Vermeer
Setting & Locations edit
- South America
- London
- United States
- Africa
- Washington
- Europe
- California
- Seattle
- Texas
- Australia
- Islandia
- Miami
- New York
- Alaska
- Chicago
- Florida
- Canada
- China
- Asia
- France
- Pacific Northwest
- India
- Pennsylvania
- Spain
- Seoul
- Utah
- Paris
- Delaware
- Germany
- Iraq
- San Francisco
- Britain
- Atlantic
- Chile
- Arizona
- Antarctica
- Colorado
- Thailand
- Tacoma
- North America
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Massachusetts
- Portugal
- Argentina
- Portland
- New England
Themes & Symbolism edit
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Amazon.com Best Books of 2011. (authoritative list)
This is book 4 of 10 in Amazon.com Best Books of September (2011). (authoritative list)
Preceded by We the Animals, and followed by Daughter of Smoke and Bone.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Ken Jennings (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4391-6717-5
Page Count: 276
Publisher: Scribner
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4391-6717-5
Page Count: 276
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 912
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