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107 “trompe-l’oeil, on a vast scale”: “Daydream,” Time, May 18, 1942, p. 86. Time was so taken by the geography of Islandia that its editors commissioned a new map of the island to run alongside its review.
107 even contemplating suicide: Jo Piazza, “Audiences Experience Avatar Blues,” CNN, January 11, 2010.
108 Treasure Island: Lloyd Osbourne, An Intimate Portrait of R.L.S. (New York: Scribner’s, 1924), p. 41.
108 “I am told”: Robert Louis Stevenson, “My First Book,” McClure’s no. 3 (September 1894), p. 283.
108 “I don’t know”: Peter and Wendy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1911/1991), p. 73.
110 Delvoye is also the artist: Katharine Harmon, You Are Here; Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003), p. 186.
112 gay map buffs: Mike Parker, Map Addict (London: Collins, 2009), p. 258.
114 Tolkien never read Islandia: According to a letter he wrote to a reader in 1957. Douglas A. Anderson, Tales Before Tolkien (New York: Del Rey, 2003), p. 372.
115 Narnia was itself named: Walter Hooper and Roger Lancelyn Green, C. S. Lewis: A Biography (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), p. 306.
115 she had some cartographic training: “Pauline Baynes,” obituary, The Daily Telegraph, Aug. 8, 2008.
115 he doodled the map first: David and Lee Eddings, The Rivan Codex (New York: Del Rey, 1998), p. 10.
117 Baldwin Street in Dunedin: Simon Warren, 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs (London: Frances Lincoln, 2010), p. 10.
117 “The achievement of”: The Romance of the Commonplace (San Francisco: Paul Elder and Morgan Shepherd, 1902), p. 91.
120 “Nothing seems crasser”: Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977/2000), p. 125.
CHAPTER 7: RECKONING
133 “Rote memorization must be emphasized”: “National Geography Bee?,” FOCUS on Geography 38, no. 2 (Summer 1988), pp. 33–36.
135 the old record had been shattered: David Brooks, “Mount Washington Gust Record Gone with the Wind,” Nashua Telegraph, Jan. 27, 2010.
136 the second best design: “The Great British Design Quest,” The Culture Show, BBC Two, Mar. 2, 2006.
136 “removing the smile”: Mark Easton, “Map of the Week: London without the Thames,” BBC News, Sept. 16, 2009.
136 “Can’t believe that the Thames disappeared”: @MayorOf London, Twitter status, Sept. 17, 2009.
136 The Swedish crown jewels: Peter Barber and Christopher Board, Tales from the Map Room: Fact and Fiction About Maps and Their Makers (London: BBC Books, 1993), p. 74.
138 an elaborate farm system: Ben Paynter, “Why Are Indian Kids So Good at Spelling?,” Slate, June 2, 2010, www.slate.com/id/2255622.
139 Deborah Tannen says: Missy Globerman, “Linguist and Author Lectures on Differences in Men’s and Women’s Conversational Styles,” Cornell Chronicle, Jul. 10, 1997.
140 John and Ashley Sims: Mike Parker, Map Addict (London: Collins, 2009), p. 254.
CHAPTER 8: MEANDER
148 without ever leaving their monasteries: James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow, Jr., eds., Maps: Finding Our Place in the World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), p. 35.
149 international cleanup efforts: Gopal Sharma, “Everest ‘Death Zone’ Set for a Spring Clean Up,” Reuters, Apr. 19, 2010.
151 hovered around 20 percent: Lornet Turnbull, “Many in U.S. to Need Passport,” The Seattle Times, Apr. 6, 2005.
152 “I’ve worked all my life”: Katie Couric, “Exclusive: Palin on Foreign Policy,” CBS Evening News, Sept. 25, 2008.
155 “My God!” he remembered marveling: Jack Longacre, “The Birth of the Highpointers Club,” Apex to Zenith (newsletter) 14 (3rd quarter 1991), p. 9.
156 least accessible U.S. high point: Helen O’Neill, “Why Molehill Is Nation’s Most Challenging Mountain,” Los Angeles Times, July 2, 2000.
156 “I would lose”: Julie Jargon, “A Fan Hits a Roadblock on a Drive to See Every Starbucks,” The Wall Street Journal, May 23, 2009.
157 forty-five Detroit-area McDonald’s: Susan Sheehan and