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atlases
author’s childhood collection of, 6, 246
etymology of “atlas,” 68
future of, 234–36
in the Library of Congress, 59
as onetime status symbol, 100
read by geography bee kids, 129
See also road atlases; and specific atlas titles and cartographers
Atlas of the DC Universe, 112
Attu, 153
Auden, W. H., 14
augmented reality, 230–31
Avatar, loser fans of, 107
Baarle-Hartog, Belgium, 64
Balchin, William, 51
Barrie, J. M., 108
Bar-Zeev, Avi, 225
Bay of the West, 83–84
Baynes, Pauline, 115
Beagle Conflict, 63, 67
Beckett, Samuel, 9
bees, 25
Bein, Rick, 41, 49
Benson, oddly terrifying episode of, 135
Bentley, E. C., 78
Betjeman, John, 14
Bible, 9, 101
contrasted with Tom Cochrane song, 28
Billep, Klaus, 150, 152–53, 159–60
Billington Sea, 87
Bir Tawil, 4
birds, 22–23, 24
Black, Lynn, 207–9
Blaeu, Willem, 81, 83
Bland, Gilbert, 94
Blij, Harm de, 18, 50–51, 54
Board on Geographic Names, 67–68, 72
Bohbot, Véronique, 233
Bokke, Lee van der, 205–8
borders, 2, 62–67
Borges, Jorge Luis, 212
Borman, Laurie, 244
Botticelli, Sandro, goofy hobbies of, 28
Bozanich, Mark, 166–68, 170, 172–73
Bramley, Bart, 180, 183, 185
Breezewood, Pennsylvania, 170
Brin, Sergey, 215
Brink, John Garrett, 176
Bruner, Jerome, 52
Bryson, Bill, 174
Bunyan, John, 28
Burgess, Gelett, 117
Burke, Edmund, 45
Burton, Richard Francis, 90
cabinets of curiosities, 98
California mapped as an island, 83
Cameron, James, 107
Carroll, Allen, 234
Carroll, Lewis, 212–13
Carson, Johnny, 34
Cassini, Giovanni, 88
cartacacoethes, 6, 8, 28
cartifacts, 74, 102–3
cartophilia, 243–49
American vs. British, 174–75
earliest origins of, 99–100
as embarrassing social handicap, 10–11, 138, 244–45
as obsessive-compulsive, 124, 135, 206–7
as result of spatial gift, 16–17, 123–24, 243, 246
as yearning for stability, 135–37, 247
See also maps: appeal of
Castlereagh, Lord Viscount, 149
Çatalhöyük mural, 7–8
censorship of maps, 92–93
Cheney, Dick, blurry domesticity of, 218
chloropleth maps, 8, 107
cities and towns
geocaching in, 209
humorously named, 68–71
most common U.S. names of, 31
navigating, 18
nonexistent, 109–110, 224
underpopulated, 3, 4
Civil War, 50
Clarke, Keith, 16
clerihew (poem), 78
climate change, 51, 84
Clinton, Bill, 187
cognitive maps, 20–21, 23–25
Cohen, Sacha Baron, 36, 37
Cohen & Taliaferro, 91–92, 94–95
collecting, 149, 168, 247. See also maps: collectors of; travel, systematic
Coleman, Alice, 51
Columbus, Christopher, 16, 76–77, 85, 87, 90, 240
comic books, gratuitous references to, 1, 8, 44, 83, 95, 112, 200
compass rose, 8
Conant, James, 46
Conrad, Joseph, 3
continental drift, 68
control cities, 168
Cooper, Gordon, 26
Coyne, Wayne, clothed online bathing of, 227
Crimean War, 50
Curtis, Jim, 35
Curzon, George, 90
Cvijić, Jovan, 207
Dante Alighieri, 28
Darwin, Charles, 9, 79
Davidson, Russ, 150
D-Day, 59
Dedalus, Stephen, 13
Dee, John, 99
Degree Confluence Project, 237–40
Delaware, surprising exoticness of, 30–31
Delvoye, Wim, 110
Denali, 67
Die Hard, ageless wisdom of, 242
Dildo, Newfoundland, 70
Discovery (ship), 90
Discworld (Pratchett), 118
Divine Comedy, The (Dante), 28
Dobson, Jerome, 227–28
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. See Carroll, Lewis
Downs, Roger, 139
Drummond, Bill, 242
Earth, seen from orbit, 25–26, 65–66, 214, 217, 220, 225
Echo & the Bunnymen, 242
Eco, Umberto, 212–13
Eddings, David, 115–16
Eden, Garden of, 85, 120
education, 10, 41, 45–55, 133–34, 146, 173
Eisenhower, Dwight, 168–69
Elden, Mary Lee, 124, 126, 131–32, 134, 137, 141, 146
Émile (Rousseau), 59
encyclopedias, collapse of sales, 234
epidemiology, 59
Eratosthenes, 90
Everest, Mount, 89, 119, 149, 156
EverQuest, 112
exploration
destroyer of mystery, 85, 219, 242–43
fundamental nerdiness of, 90–91
in an overexplored world, 119–120, 149, 158–59, 199–200, 230, 238, 242–43
See also specific explorers
Extra Miler Club, 11
fantasy literature, 113–21
Farrow, Mia, 193
Faulkner, William, 119
Ferdinandea, 161
Fischer, Joseph, 75
Five Graves to Egypt, 184