Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (Audiobook)

from MartinBodek

I originally begrudged Jennings' ability to make me laugh because I couldn't imagine a great sense humor could exist in the mind of such a "Brainiac." Boy was I wrong, the book is downright hilarious and filled to suitcase-bursting proportions with glorious geeky minutiae. This book reawakened a ...

from Daniel.Estes

"It would be nice if Americans knew where a country was before we went to war with them." - Alex Trebek, Jennings' old nemesis I love reading and studying maps. If you ask me about it, I might describe my interest using nebulous phrases such as "geographic relationships" or "sense of place" befor...

from Katya0133

Jennings examines the world of map geeks from a number of different perspectives including collectors of rare maps, geocachers, and finalists at the National Geography Bee. I thought this book might suffer from a lack of a strong personal narrative (such as Jennings' run on Jeopardy, which was ex...

from scote23

It's nice to know there are other mapheads out there, even if they are mostly boys (ugh!) ;) My favorite chapters were the one about the National Geographic Bee (which I once participated in) and the one in which you discover Ken Jennings and Brandon Sanderson were college roommates. I think that...

from SherylHendrix

This book appealed to me because I enjoy looking at maps and have, in fact, as Jennings described used them to decorate in my home. For more than twenty-five years I maintained a membership in the National Geographic Society and collected the magazines until we had to move and I realized that hau...