Chapter Seventy-Six: The Island of Lost Maps

So looking at the behind-the-scenes of my blog now, I see that I haven't updated since May!  It's not that I wasn't reading in June, but I was busy with lots of other things.  Now that I have a bit more time, look for several posts!

So, The Island of Lost Maps by journalist Miles Harvey.  This wasn't the most thrilling non-fiction book I've ever read, but it was reasonably interesting, enough so to keep me reading it at least.  It divagates a good bit from the topic of  map thief Gilbert Bland, which in the beginning seems like it will be the main focus of the book.  However, these divagations--usually focusing on other aspects of the rare maps world in America--are not unrelated to the story of Bland's cartographic crime spree and are interesting in their own right.  I'd recommend it if you're really into maps, or ever have been.