the gripping story of an esteemed rare-map dealer who made millions stealing priceless maps
Edición de la obra The map thief
| Autor | Michael Blanding |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Thorndike Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2014 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 603 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781410471147 |
| ISBN-10 | 1410471144 |
| OCLC | 879248495 |
| LCCN | 2014015524 |
| Serie | Thorndike Press large print crime scene · Thorndike Press large print crime scene |
| Número de Cutter |
B642m |
Maps have long elicited a special fascination -- both as practical tools and as beautiful works of art. But to collectors the map trade can be cutthroat, with quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. This is the story of antiquarian map dealer E. Forbes Smiley, who for years doubled as a map thief until he was finally arrested for slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library.