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78 “The science of geography”: Biography for Beginners (London, T. W. Laurie, 1905), p. 5.
CHAPTER 5: ELEVATION
82 a record price: “Million-Dollar Map Tops Julia’s Winter Auction,” Antiques and the Arts Online, Feb. 9, 2010, http://antiquesandthearts.com/Antiques/AuctionWatch/2010–02–09__11–49–11.html.
84 making its final appearance: Raymond H. Ramsey, No Longer on the Map: Discovering Places That Never Were (New York: Viking, 1972), p. 215.
84 The Mountains of Kong: James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow, Jr., eds., Maps: Finding Our Place in the World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), p. 145.
87 Columbus relied: Vincent Virga, Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations (New York: Little, Brown, 2007), p. 24.
87 the vast “Billington Sea”: I first saw this wonderful anecdote in John Noble Wilford, The Mapmakers (New York: Vintage, 2000, p. 167) and learned about Francis’s checkered past in William Bradford’s own journals, The Mayflower Papers (London: Penguin, 2007), p. 120.
87 “The Great American Desert”: Virga, Cartographia, p. 206.
88 “Your work has cost me”: Harwood, To the Ends of the Earth: 100 Maps That Changed the World (Newton Abbott, Devon: Davis & Charles, 2006), p. 108.
88 new sanitation systems: Akerman and Karrow, Maps, p. 155.
89 fell to their deaths: Harwood, To the Ends of the Earth, p. 125.
89 James Rennell: Clements R. Markham, Major James Rennell and the Rise of Modern English Geography (London: Cassell, 1895), p. 48.
89 Nain Singh: Singh’s remarkable story has been told many times; I’ve relied here on the chapter on pundits in John Noble Wilford, The Map-makers.
90 “God had endowed”: Charles Kendall Adams, Christopher Columbus: His Life and His Work (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1892), p. 20.
90 Vespucci was a map collector: C. Edwards Lester, The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius (New Haven, Conn.: Horace Mansfield, 1858), p. 70.
91 a “Palin effect”: Gemma Bowes, “Eastern Europe Braced for Palin Effect,” The Observer, Sept. 16, 2007. In U.S. electoral politics, the “Palin effect” is something different, don’tcha know.
92 In 1504, King Manuel I: As a result of a deft bit of map theft by an Italian spy named Alberto Cantino. Harwood, To the Ends of the Earth, p. 64.
92 “Almost everything was changed”: Bill Keller, “Soviet Aide Admits Maps Were Faked for 50 Years,” The New York Times, Sept. 3, 1988.
93 E. Forbes Smiley III: The best reporting on the Smiley case was done by Kim Martineau in the Hartford Courant and by William Finnegan in “A Theft in the Library: The Case of the Missing Maps,” The New Yorker, Oct. 17, 2005, pp. 64–78.
95 “If you take”: Lillian Thomas, “Valuable Maps Too Easily Stolen from Books, Libraries,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 16, 2005.
96 Farhad Hakimzadeh: Sandra Laville, “British Library Seeks £300,000 Damages from Book Vandal,” The Guardian, Jan. 17, 2009.
98 Handel enraged him: Philipp Blom, To Have and To Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting (New York: Overlook, 2003), p. 82.
98 an amazing hodgepodge: From inventories I found in Blom’s book as well as in Umberto Eco, The Infinity of Lists (New York: Rizzoli, 2009).
99 “some to beautify their halls”: In his preface to The English Euclid.
99 “took great delight”: John Aubrey, Brief Lives (Oxford, England: Clarendon, 1898), p. 329.
99 Samuel Pepys had: Jonathan Potter, Collecting Antique Maps: An Introduction to the History of Cartography (London: Jonathan Potter, 2002), p. 10.
99 by 1560, a quarter: Catherine Delano Smith, “Map Ownership in Sixteenth-Century Cambridge,” Imago Mundi 47, no. 1 (1995), pp. 67–93.
99 Vermeer was a particular map fan: James A. Welu, “Vermeer: His Cartographic Sources,” Art Bulletin 57 (December 1975), pp. 529–547.
101 Christian mapmakers were constrained: Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers (New York: Vintage, 1985), p. 148.
CHAPTER 6: LEGEND
105 “Most of us”: C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (New York: HarperCollins, 1952), p. 5.
106 “This view looks