The Map Thief Many will love this meticulously researched and insightful book by investigative journalist Michael Blanding: rare map collectors, American History buffs and anyone interested in a well written crime story involving the theft of world treasures. "The Map Thief” by Michael Blanding (). The earlier reviews have pretty well covered the plot of this book: a seller of old maps, who has fallen heavily into debt to pay for his lavish lifestyle, stole old maps from old books in old universities for re-sale to those Cited by: 1. · The strange, mysterious world of rare maps—and the even stranger mystery of the man who stole them for years without getting www.doorway.rulist Blanding (The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink, ) presents a detailed account of the case of E. Forbes Smiley III, the high-living Gatsby-esque map dealer who scored millions fencing rare www.doorway.ru: Penguin Publishing Group.
"The Map Thief," aside from be "In this cartographic caper, Michael Blanding slips into the antique map trade and takes a magnifying glass to the mind and motivations of a curious character named E. Forbes Smiley III, a New England polymath with a special talent for taking razors to rare books. Wednesday, March 9, John Carter Brown Library, Brown UniversityProvidence, Rhode IslandIn The Map Thief, award-winning investigative reporter Michael Bla. edit data. Michael Blanding is a Boston-based investigative journalist, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, Slate, The Boston Globe Magazine, Boston magazine, and other publications. His newest book, North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Search for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work is due out from Hachette Books in March
The strange, mysterious world of rare maps—and the even stranger mystery of the man who stole them for years without getting www.doorway.rulist Blanding (The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink, ) presents a detailed account of the case of E. Forbes Smiley III, the high-living Gatsby-esque map dealer who scored millions fencing rare maps. THE MAP THIEF: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Michael Blanding (Gotham Books, June , Hardcover, eBook) includes the results of an exclusive interview with Smiley before he went quiet, as well as the other individuals involved; from the dealers he worked with to the librarians. THE MAP THIEF: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps by Michael Blanding (Gotham Books, June , Hardcover, eBook) includes the results of an exclusive interview with Smiley before he went quiet, as well as the other individuals involved; from the dealers he worked with to the librarians affected by Smiley’s theft. Blanding expertly reports a tale of personal destruction and redemption played out against the dog-eat-dog world of a.
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