Gilbert Bland – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:31:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Gilbert Bland – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Talking About Map Thefts https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/03/talking-about-map-thefts/ Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:31:00 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1300 More]]> Here’s a profile of Thomas Durrer, the University of Virginia detective assigned to the Gilbert Bland map theft case, in the spring 2016 issue of Virginia, the university’s alumni magazine. [via]

map-thief island-lost-mapsBland’s career predated Forbes Smiley’s (he lacked Smiley’s ostensible pedigree) and was the focus of Miles Harvey’s 2000 book The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Amazon, iBooks).

Smiley was, of course, the subject of Michael Blanding’s 2014 book The Map Thief (Amazon, iBooks; see my review). Blanding is on a bit of a campus speaking tour at the moment, discussing the Smiley case. He’s at the University of Florida tonight, the University of Miami tomorrow night, and more college campuses in April and May.

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