{"product_id":"the-island-of-lost-maps","title":"The island of lost maps","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The island of lost maps (Hardcover, 445 pages – G K Hall \u0026amp; Co, 2001) – G K Hall \u0026amp; Co, 2001. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Island of Lost Maps is the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was the Al Capone of cartography, a man with the unlikely name of Gilbert Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from south Florida whose cross-country slash-and-dash operation went virtually undetected until he was caught in December 1995.This is also the story of author Miles Harvey's quest to understand America's greatest map thief, a chameleon who changed careers and families without ever looking back. Gilbert Bland was a cipher, a blank slate - for Harvey, journalistic terra incognita. Filling in Bland's life was like filling in a map, and grew from an investigation into an intellectual adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miles Harvey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52368217407770,"sku":"9780783893891","price":103.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/2699\/9322\/files\/91bgWhAdx1L._SY522.jpg?v=1781739946","url":"https:\/\/medicampus.store\/products\/the-island-of-lost-maps","provider":"medicampus.store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}