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hollmarie's review against another edition
4.0
Perfectly pleasant and fun (if you love maps and/or are married to a cartographer).
ketevanreads's review against another edition
4.0
Very light and fun read about different geography topics. Gréât for travelers, lovers of random facts, those who think maps are becoming less useful, and of course mapheads, Jennings’ term for map enthusiasts.
Very engaging and entertaining, I was pleasantly surprised.
Very engaging and entertaining, I was pleasantly surprised.
joelkarpowitz's review against another edition
4.0
An entertaining read on a subject I had no clue I was interested in!
alanburch79's review against another edition
5.0
Great book. Ken Jennings has a great writing style, you never get bored reading it, especially if you have an interest in maps like I do ;)
trekbicycles's review against another edition
5.0
A joy for memoir lovers and map lovers! Being both -- this was perfect! Loved the footnotes! A perfect read for me as I spent a lot of my summer looking at maps!
(Read this summer)
(Read this summer)
kittymamers's review against another edition
4.0
ei teagi, kas see on äkki niširaamat, sest diagnoosisin lugedes ka endal kaardipea - mitte ehk nii ekstreemse, kui mälumängurist autoril, aga enamuse kirjeldatud kaardifriikidega suutsin suurel määral samastuda. geopeiturid, kaardikollektsionäärid, maanteeatlastes järge ajavad tugitooliorienteerujad, reisisisihtkohtade checklistide pidajad, fantaasiamaade kaartide austajad... been there, done that. ühesõnaga, minul oli väga huvitav! aga on ka hästi kirjutatud ja ladus raamat, sai nalja ja sai teada jube palju uusi fakte (millest enamus kohe meelest läks).
sobivalt lugesin raamatut reisi ajal, seega suure hulga kaardilugemisega paralleelselt. väga mõnus kogemus.
sobivalt lugesin raamatut reisi ajal, seega suure hulga kaardilugemisega paralleelselt. väga mõnus kogemus.
iamcaitlinjacobs's review against another edition
5.0
Loved everything about this one! It was entertaining and fast-paced the whole way through. I love looking at maps but am definitely not what anyone would consider 'good at geography' and I wondered if that would be okay while reading this. It totally is. You don't need to know anything about geography to enjoy this one. I'd recommend it to anyone. :)
magnuscumlaude's review against another edition
5.0
This book was so good for me personally, it ushered me into my cartography and Ken Jennings era. If you like geography and maps then this book will be endlessly interesting to you. I feel like every few pages I stopped to jot something down that I wanted to look more into. I kinda fell into a non-fiction lull after it took me like a month to read Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, but this pulled me back in. I love to learn!!! Now back to my regularly scheduled literary gay fiction.
jmbq_reads's review against another edition
4.0
Being a map lover myself, I picked this book off the library's new book shelf as soon as I spotted it. Jennings puts his vast trivia background into play here, covering the history of cartography, map collecting and theft, travel, geocaching, lost or quirky points on the map, and roads in between. At times his clever irreverence gets tired, but overall it was an engaging and fun read that has me wanting to wrestle my mother to get my own atlas back. (I want my map book, doggone it!!!)