Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects.
Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief —until he was finally arrested slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library.
There are a million reasons why this book is on my wishlist. The mystery of the story. The cover. The fact that it really happened. I need to read this book at some point.
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Write reactiesI really liked this one, nothing like a good heist! Who'd have thought there'd be a seedy underbelly to the map world?!
ReplyOn my TBR it goes!
ReplyI just saw Rebecca's review on this one. I think my dad would appreciate this novel!
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