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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Reprint Edition) by Miles Harvey, Gilbert Joseph Bland Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-7679-0826-0 / 0767908260 ISBN-13: 978-0-7679-0826-9 / 9780767908269 In 1995, a watchful patron alerted a librarian at Johns Hopkins University that another patron, a middle-aged and well-dressed man, was behaving suspiciously. The librarian called the police, who discovered that the man, a Floridian named Gilbert Bland, had cut four maps from a set of rare books. On |