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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,

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