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42 in nine different countries: National Geographic–Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literary Survey, www.nationalgeographic.com/geosurvey2002.
42 “Just a conspiracy”: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (New York: Grove, 1967), p. 108.
43 made geopolitics seem: de Blij, Why Geography Matters, pp. 15, 45.
43 Arthur Jay Klinghoffer: Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, The Power of Projections: How Maps Reflect Global Politics and History (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006), p. 126.
43 children have it worst: These statistics are drawn from the books that have been written on today’s hypercushioned, outdoors-hating children, especially Lenore Skenazy, Free Range Kids: Giving Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009) and Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin, 2005), and their associated websites.
44 A mom in Columbus: “The Walk Felt ’Round the World,” The Commercial Dispatch, Mar. 23, 2009.
45 adult recruits’ parents: Nancy Gibbs, “The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting,” Time, Nov. 20, 2009.
45 measures of outdoor activity: Oliver Pergams and Patricia A. Zaradic, “Evidence for a Fundamental and Pervasive Shift Away from Nature-Based Recreation,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, no. 7 (February 19, 2008), pp. 2295–2300.
45 panicked: Craig Lambert, “Nonstop,” Harvard Magazine, March–April 2010.
45 British moms now refuse: Julie Henry, “Countryside Ban for Children Because Mums Cannot Read Maps and Hate Mud,” The Daily Telegraph, Feb. 20, 2010.
45 “Geography is an earthly subject”: James Prior, Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, vol. 1 (London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1826), p. 512.
46 “Geography is not a university subject!”: David N. Livingstone, The Geographical Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise (Oxford, England: Blackwell, 1992), p. 311.
47 “All maps distort reality”: Mark Monmonier, How to Lie with Maps (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), p. xi.
49 “You think”: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1762/1911), p. 74.
49 “I know of no other”: Peirce Lewis, “Beyond Description,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 75, no. 4 (December 1985), pp. 465–477.
50 “until every hamlet”: “Old Maps and New,” p. 540.
51 In 2008, a survey: “Cool Survey Results from Nokia Maps Guys,” Nokia “Conversations” blog, http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/11/26/cool-survey-results-from-nokia-maps-guys/.
51 Jessica Lynch: Richard Serrano and Mark Fineman, “Army Describes What Went Wrong for Jessica Lynch’s Unit,” Los Angeles Times, Jul. 10, 2003.
51 “graphicacy”: “Graphicacy Should Be the Fourth Ace in the Pack,” The Cartographer 3, no. 1 (June 1966), pp. 23–28.
52 Jerome Bruner complained: In Search of Pedagogy, vol. 1 (New York: Routledge, 2006), p. 36.
53 “Its meanings have shifted”: Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977/2000), p. 124.
55 more than $100 million: “Geography Catches Up,” National Geographic press release, July 14, 2005.
CHAPTER 4: BENCHMARKS
56 “This information”: Barry Lopez, “The Mappist,” in Light Action in the Caribbean (New York: Knopf, 2000), p. 159.
58 “River of Doubt”: This ill-fated expedition—the only time, as far as I know, that a U.S. president has defeated flesh-eating bacteria—is fascinatingly detailed in Candice Millard, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey (New York: Anchor, 2006).
59 Zelig-like role: The Snow and Normandy maps, among many others, can be seen in Jeremy Harwood, To the Ends of the Earth: 100 Maps That Changed the World (Newton Abbot, Devon: Davis & Charles, 2006).
59 The Apollo 11 crew pored: John Noble Wilford, The Mapmakers (New York: Vintage, 2000), p. 427.
59 the library’s very first shipment: Ralph E.