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193 “Look at this list”: Mia Farrow enthused about geocaching to Time Out New York in November 2006, while Ryan Phillippe brought it up on George Lopez’s talk show in May 2010. Wil Wheaton and Rikki Rock-ett used to geocache as GroundskeeperWillie (awesome handle!) and PoisonDrummer (not-so-awesome handle), respectively, though neither has logged a find in years.

197 1,157 caches in a single day: Steve O’Gara, “New World Record—1157 Geocache Finds in 24 Hours,” Groundspeak forums, Oct. 2, 2010, http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=261055.

201“OK, OK”: “Giving Up . . .” GPSStash list, Yahoo! Groups, message 2040, Jun. 17, 2001.

202 “Viajero Perdido”: “Primero de Nicaragua,” cache GCH30B, www.geocaching.com. His geohandle means, quite appropriately, “lost traveler.”

202 “Hukilaulau,” from Long Island: “Geocaching Level of Addiction, What’s Yours?,” Geocaching Topics forum, June 23, 2008, forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtoic=196941. In the same thread, he confesses that when he spends too much time online looking at geo-caches, he appeases his wife by telling her he’s looking at porn.

205 “the worst has happened”: Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1922/1965), p. 525.

207 “I can imagine no more”: Niall Ferguson, Empire: The Rise and Demise of British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (New York: Basic Books, 2003), p. 200.

207 Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijiō: Vincent Virga, Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations (New York: Little, Brown, 2007), p. 153.

208 “I don’t do anything”: Charles Hoskinson, “GPS Receivers Add Twist to Hide and Seek,” The Washington Times, Nov. 7, 2004.

208 “I started to miss”: Geocache, directed by David Liban, 2007, www .geofilm.net.

208 “Was out enjoying”: “Sugar’s Compost Pile,” cache GC229E8, www.geocaching.com.

CHAPTER 11: FRONTIER

212 “Our age today”: Quoted in John Noble Wilford, The Mapmakers (New York: Vintage, 2000), p. 112.

212 “Mein Herr”: Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (London: Macmillan, 1893), p. 169.

212 1982 essay: Umberto Eco, “On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1,” in How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 1994), p. 95.

216 twenty terabytes or so: Stewart Brand, The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility (New York: Basic Books, 1999), p. 87.

217 George Armstrong Custer: Jeffry D. Wert, Custer (New York: Touchstone, 1996), p. 50.

217 drop film packets: Nicholas M. Short, The Remote Sensing Tutorial (Washington, D.C.: Federation of American Scientists, 2001), http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Intro/Part2_26e.html.

218 a military incursion: Daniel Hernandez, “Tensions High Between Nicaragua, Costa Rica in Border Dispute,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 19, 2010.

218 “McDonaldization” of cartography: Martin Dodge and Chris Perkins, “Reclaiming the Map: British Geography and Ambivalent Cartographic Practice,” Environment and Planning A 40, no. 6 (June 2008), pp. 1271–1276.

219 briefly given Chinese names: “Google Admits ‘Mistake’ of Wrong Depiction of Arunachal,” The Times of India, Aug. 8, 2009.

220 Meteor-impact craters: Richard Macey, “Opal Miner Stumbles on Mega Meteorite Crater,” The Sydney Morning Herald, Nov. 23, 2008.

220 a Roman villa in Parma: “Internet Maps Reveal Roman Villa,” BBC News, Sept. 21, 2005.

220 a lost Amazonian city: Ed Caesar, “Google Earth Helps Find El Dorado,” The Sunday Times, Jan. 10, 2010.

220 a remote forest in Mozambique: Louise Gray, “Scientists Discover New Forest with Undiscovered Species on Google Earth,” The Daily Telegraph, Dec. 21, 2008.

220 the so-called forest swastika: “German Forest Loses Swastika,” BBC News, Dec. 4, 2000.

220 eight thousand grazing cattle: Thomas H. Maugh II, “Tip Them Over and They Still Point North,” Los Angeles Times, Aug. 26, 2008.

221 Greenland is oversized fourteenfold: Ralph E. Ehrenberg, Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography (Washington,