Maphead_ Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks - Ken Jennings [132]
Ortelius, Abraham, 68
Page, Larry, 227
paintball, invented by Lewis Carroll, 213
Palin, Michael, 90–91
Palin, Sarah, 37, 151–52
Parker, Mike, 65, 112
path integration, 23–24
Peace Corps, 43
Pepys, Samuel, 99
Perry, Matthew, 72
Persian Gulf, 72–73
Peter Pan (Barrie), 108
Peters, Arno, 222–23
Philip’s (map publisher), 6
Phillippe, Ryan, 193
Photo-Auto Guides, 175
photography, 168, 239–40. See also aerial photogrammetry
Pike, Zebulon, 87
pilgrimage, 148–49
Pilgrims, Mayflower, 72, 87
Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan), 28
pirates, 61–62, 108
Pitcairn Island, 152
place-names. See toponyms
Plessis, Denis Martineau du, 36
Poe, Edgar Allan, 184
POI (points of interest), 211, 231
Poison, two-armed drummer from, 193
Pokémons, more interesting than actual animals, 45
populations, 4
Port-au-Prince, 2010 earthquake, 228–30, 229
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 13
Potter, Jonathan, 82
Powers of Ten, 214
Pratchett, Terry, 118
Preuss, Charles, 247
Prime Meridian, 240
projections, 64, 77–78, 221–24, 223
pronunciation of place-names, 73
Proust, Marcel, 73
Ptolemy, 77, 86–87
pundits, 89
“Purloined Letter, The” (Poe), 184
quadrangle maps, 60
Rademacher, Paul, 226–27
Rand McNally, 175–77, 234–36, 244, 246
corporate history of, 175–76, 234–35
Simpsons joke about, 36
rebellib stick charts, 20, 21
Reagan, Ronald, 68
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust), 73
Rennell, James, 89
Rhodes, Cecil, 207
rhumb lines, 221
Ringmann, Matthias, 76
road atlases, 148, 160, 167, 175–77, 235–36
in map rallies, 177–85
roadgeeks, 166–73, 184–85
as archaeologists, 172
and the Internet, 168
public servants, 171–72
road rallies, 177, 180
road signs, 167, 171–72
Robinson, Arthur, 222
Rockall, 161
role-playing games, 112, 116
Roosevelt, Theodore, 58, 165
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard), 42
Rothman, Leonard, 97–98, 101–4
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 49
Rowling, J. K., 199–200, 213
Royal Geographical Society, 75, 79, 89–91
Rumsey, David, 98
Salisbury, 3rd Marquess of, 207
Salman, Benjamin, 109–12, 129–31, 134, 137
Saltonstall, Wye, 45
Sanderson, Brandon, 113–14, 116–19
sandwich, Earth, 240–42
Saturday Night Live, 38, 223–24
Scott, Robert Falcon, 90, 205
Scripps National Spelling Bee, 124, 146–47
selective availability, 187
Seoul, South Korea. See under Jennings, Ken
Seven Cities of Gold, 85
Sexmoan, Philippines, 70
sexuality, 70–71, 77
Shackleton, Ernest, 90
Shultz, George, leaky deck of, 98
Shuster, Bud, 170
Simon, Phil, 97–98, 101–4
Simpsons, The, 36
Sims, John and Ashley, 140
Sinclair, Jim and Sue, 177–81, 183–84
Singh, Nain, 89
Sloane, Hans, 98
Smiley, E. Forbes III, 93–96
Smith, John, 71–72, 94
Snaring, Caitlin, 127–31, 137, 142, 146
snickerdoodle recipes. See a cookbook
Snow, John, 59
social studies, 41
South Korea
map conflicts with Japan, 62, 72
seen from space, 66
See also Jennings, Ken: in Seoul
space exploration, 25–26, 59
Spafford, John, 166–68, 172–73, 182
spatial cognition, 16–29, 51–52, 233
Speer, Albert, 58
Stanley, Henry Morton, 79
Starbucks, 156–57, 164
Star Trek, 112, 197
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 108
Stewart, Isaac, 116–18
Stoppard, Tom, 42
St. Valentine Day’s Massacre (map rally), 177–85
subways, 136
surveyors
brave and heroic, 88–89
unpopular and spooky, 63
swastikas, visible from space, 220
Sweden, plotting for world domination by, 136
Sylvie and Bruno (Carroll), 212–13
Taal, Lake, 2
Tacoma Narrows Bridge, 172
Tadataka, Ino, 62
Tallis, John, 97, 104
Tamir, Yuli, 64
Tannen, Deborah, 139
taxi drivers, 17, 236
Teague, Mike, 188–89
Terra Australis, 68, 81, 83
Tharp, Marie, 74
Theatrum Orbis Terrarium (Ortelius), 68
theft of maps, 93–97
Third Culture Kids, 30
Thompson, Almon, 242–43
Thompson, Nephi, 20
Thorpe, Jim, 69
Today (show), 34–35
Tolkien, J. R. R., 114–16, 119
toponyms, 4, 31, 49, 67–74, 219
politically incorrect, 67
risqué, 70–71
sellout, 69–70
topophilia, 14–15, 29–31, 45
Toscanelli, Paolo, 16
travel, systematic, 11, 149–65, 168
cost of, 151, 162–63
reasons for, 151,