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shitty sense of direction of, 17–19, 140–41
Jeopardy!, 15, 39–40, 125, 128
Jerimoth Hill, 156
jigsaw puzzles, 9, 102
Johnson, Boris, 136
Jordan, Robert, 113
Joyce, James, 13
Judaism, 101
Keats, John, 118
Kennedy, John F., 43
Kenton, Oklahoma, 164
Keyhole. See Google Earth
Kissinger, Henry, 37
Klinghoffer, Arthur Jay, 43
“Knowledge, The,” 17
Kong, Mountains of, 84–85
Korea. See Jennings, Ken: in Seoul; North Korea; South Korea
Las Casas, Bartolomé de, 16, 76
Late Night with David Letterman, 38
Lewis, C. S., 115
Lewis, G. Malcolm, 17
Lewis, Peirce, 14, 49
Liben, Lynn, 51–52, 139–41
libraries, 93–96, 103
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, 55–63, 74–78
ginormous-ness of, 58–59
holdings of, highlights, 58, 62–63, 74
origins of, 59
patrons of, 60–63, 74
literature, maps in, 3, 105–8, 113–21, 212–13
Livingstone, David, 79
Llanfairpwll, Wales, 69
location-based technologies, 225–28, 230–31
Lockley, R. M., 22
London Map Fair, 79–86, 90
London Underground, 136
Long, Stephen, 87
Longacre, Jack, 155, 165
longitude, 86, 240
Lopez, Mario, kindness to airheads of, 38
Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien), 114, 119
lost, getting 17, 19, 51, 232–33, 236
Louis XIV, 88
Lynch, Jessica, 51
Macedonia, Greece calling “dibsies” on, 72
Mad Men, 41–42
Mallory, George, 156
Manuel I of Portugal, 92
maps
in academic geography, 47–49
allegorical, 26–28, 27
antique, 74–86, 91–104, 120, 148
appeal of, 2–4, 9, 29, 57, 68, 82, 99–100, 104, 135–37, 242, 245–47
armchair exploration of, 3–4, 17, 148, 160, 165
and art, 99–100, 110
and children, 2–3, 9–11, 19–20, 43–45, 57, 107–12, 122–24, 135–37, 142, 146, 167–68, 173, 248–49
censorship of, 92–93
chloropleth, 8, 107
collectors of, 79–84, 90, 91–92, 94–104, 247
deconstructing, 47, 220–24
and detail, 2–3, 102, 174–75, 212–13
digital, 86, 213–221, 224–236, 245–46
earliest, 7–8, 20–21
gas station, 176
and gender, 139–41
hypsometric, 6–7
illiteracy (see geographic illiteracy)
imaginary features on, 68, 83–85, 120, 224
importance to human achievement, 9–10, 16, 59, 78
innateness of, 19–20, 25–29, 123–24
in literature, 3, 105–8, 113–21, 212–13
mental, 20–21, 23–25
as metaphor for life, 28
military, 58, 59, 60–61, 82
and national identity, 64, 71–73, 75, 78, 136
oddities on, 2–4, 68–71, 83–85, 93, 117, 153, 156, 161, 167, 170, 237–39, 242–43
old-timeyness of, 7, 41–42, 236
and power, 64, 136, 162
rallying, 177–85
thefts of, 93–97
treasure, 62, 248–49
of unreal territory, 28, 105–21, 243
upside down, 52–54, 53, 140
versatility of, 25, 74, 226, 236
See also atlases; cartophilia; geography
Mapparium, 222
Marshall Islands, 20, 21
Mauritania, not coterminous with Mauritius, 37
Mauritius, not coterminous with Mauritania, 37
Mayda, 84–85
Mayflower, 72, 87
Mazzeo, Rosario, poor animal care by, 22
McArthur, Stuart, 53
McCain, John, senility of, 37
McClendon, Brian, 126–27, 214–221, 224–25
McDonald’s, 156–57
McKinley, Mount. See Denali. Take that, Ohio.
Mellaart, James 7
Mercator, Gerardus, 45, 68, 86, 221
Minster, Joel, 235–36
Miss Teen USA, 38
Mistborn (Sanderson), 113, 117, 118
mondegreens, 106
Monmonier, Mark, 47
Monroe, Marilyn, 36
Monty Python, 90–91
Moon, mapping of, 59, 74
More, Thomas, 119
Moss, Kate, 162
MostTraveledPeople.com, 158–59, 163–64
Muensterberger, Werner, 247
Muggles, 199–200
Narnia, 115
National Enquirer, 35
National Geographic Atlas of the World, 72–73, 234
National Geographic Bee, 124–47
finals, 141–45
and gender, 138–41
preparation for, 127–29
and race, 138
National Geographic Society, 6, 11, 54–55, 73, 83, 124, 126, 137
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, 60
national parks, 157
and geocaching, 201
navigation. See GPS: navigation; wayfinding
Nebenzahl, Ken, 80
neckties, 102–3
New Moore Island, 84
Nixon, Richard, 37
North Korea, 66, 151
Northwest Passage, 83, 87, 119
nostalgia, 104, 234
Notes from a Small Island (Bryson), 174
Obama, Barack, 37, 218
obstetrics, maps and, 245
Oetter, Doug, 48, 133
“Old Maltese,” 179, 181
OpenStreetMap, 228–30
Ordnance Survey,