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News Release
Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
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Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3843
Phone: (410) 516-7160 | Fax (410) 516-5251
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November 20, 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Kathryn Davis
ksdavis@jhu.edu,
410-516-8327
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Mystery! A True Tale of Theft and
Deceit
Miles Harvey, Author of The Island of Lost Maps, to
Speak at the George Peabody Library
Author Miles Harvey will talk about his recently published book,
The Island of
Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime, the story of a
curious crime spree that
came to an end in 1995 in Baltimore's George Peabody Library.
Harvey will tell the story of
Gilbert Bland, the most prolific map thief in American history,
and will introduce members
of the Sheridan Libraries staff who became real-life characters
in this exploration of an
intriguing subculture of map collectors, experts and enthusiasts.
The program, sponsored by
the Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries, will be
held at 5:30 p.m.,
Wednesday, Nov. 29, in the George Peabody Library, 17 Mount
Vernon Place. A reception
and book signing will immediately follow. This event is free and
open to the public.
Miles Harvey first became intrigued with Gilbert Bland while
working as a book
review columnist for Outside magazine. Harvey has had a
lifelong fascination with
maps and initially wrote about Bland for Outside magazine
in 1996. A graduate
of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the
University of Michigan, he has
been a United Press International reporter and written for In
These Times.
Reservations are required for this free event. To learn about
this or other events
sponsored by the Friends of the Johns Hopkins University
Libraries, call 410-516-8327 or
email
LibraryFriends@jhu.edu.
The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library and its collections at the
Hutzler Reading Room, Garrett Library and the George Peabody
Library.
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