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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.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Ken Jennings: Add a description of this character.
- Mindy Jennings: Ken's geographically challenged wife
- Amerigo Vespucci: Early explorer with great early PR.
- Daniel: Ken's accented GPS
- Alex Trebek: Jeopardy! Host.
- Jerome Bruner
- Ronald Reagan
- Lilly Gaskin
- Joseph Fischer
- Richard Ankrom
- Paul Cohen
- Benjamin Salman
- Todd
- Wayne Coyne
- Charles Darwin
- Robert Scott
- John Spafford
- Brian McClendon
- Bart Bramley
- Shantan Krovvidi
- Dante
- Richard M. Nixon
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Nikki
- Nicholas Farnsworth
- Rod Ritchie
- Eric Yang
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Leonard Rothman
- Dave Ulmer
- John Hébert
- Lewis Carroll
- Phil Simon
- Austin Tappan Wright
- Gelett Burgess
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Forbes Smiley
- George Mallory
- Louise McGregor
- Aileen Yang
- Lynn Black
- Traci
- James Rennell
- David Uttal
- Rodger
- Caitlin Snaring
- Kenji Golimlim
- Klaus Billep
- Martin Waldseemüller
- Dr. Alan Hogenauer
- Jeremy Irish
- Alex. Arjun
- Peirce Lewis
- Chris Guillebeau
- Craig Noland
- Nain Singh
- Anders Knospe
- Paul Rademacher
- Mary Lee Elden
- Bryan Fix
- Brandon
- Mike Teague
- Charles Veley
- Ian Harvey
- Sarah Palin
- Kennen Sparks
- Isaac Stewart
- Lynn Liben
- Ptolemy
- David Helgren
- Bryant Gumbel
- Rob Covey
- Barack Obama
- Dylan
- Vansh Jain
- Ed Hall
- Ze Frank
- van der Bokke
Setting & Locations edit
- Argleton, England
- Baarle-Hartog, Belgium
- Billington Sea
- Breezewood, Pennsylvania
- California
- Delaware
- Denali, Alaska
- Mount Everest
- China
- Haiti
- Holy Land
- Iran
- Korea
- Mountains of Kong
- London
- Llanfairpwll, Wales
- Macedonia
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mount Mckinley
- New Moore Island
- North Korea
- Pitcairn Island
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Seoul, Korea
- Lake Taal
- Tacoma, Washington
- Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
- Victoria Island, Nunavut
- Wake Island
- Washington, D.C.
- Weirton, West Virginia
- Florida
- Mount Washington
Organizations edit
- National Geographic Society: Add a description of this organization.
- Association of American Geographers
- Board on Geographic Names
- Extra Miler Club
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- Peace Corps
- Rand McNally
- Royal Geographical Society
- Travelers' Century Club
- Traveller's Club
- United States Geographical Survey
First Sentence edit
They say you're not really grown up until you've moved the last box of your stuff out of storage at your parents.
Table of Contents edit
Chapter 1: Eccentricity
Chapter 2: Bearing
Chapter 3: Fault
Chapter 4: Benchmarks
Chapter 5: Elevation
Chapter 6: Legend
Chapter 7: Reckoning
Chapter 8: Meander
Chapter 9: Transit
Chapter 10: Overedge
Chapter 11: Frontier
Chapter 12: Relief
Notes
Index
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)
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: GA105.3 .J46 2011
- Dewey: 912
Subjects edit
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