Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (46 page)

Mellaart, James
7

Mercator, Gerardus,
45
,
68
,
86
,
221

Minster, Joel,
235
–36

Miss Teen USA,
38

Mistborn
(Sanderson),
113
,
117
,
118

mondegreens,
106

Monmonier, Mark,
47

Monroe, Marilyn,
36

Monty Python,
90
–91

Moon, mapping of,
59
,
74

More, Thomas,
119

Moss, Kate,
162

MostTraveledPeople.com
,
158
–59,
163
–64

Muensterberger, Werner,
247

Muggles,
199
–200

Narnia,
115

National Enquirer,
35

National Geographic Atlas of the World,
72
–73,
234

National Geographic Bee,
124
–47

finals,
141
–45

and gender,
138
–41

preparation for,
127
–29

and race,
138

National Geographic Society,
6
,
11
,
54
–55,
73
,
83
,
124
,
126
,
137

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency,
60

national parks,
157

and geocaching,
201

navigation.
See
GPS: navigation; wayfinding

Nebenzahl, Ken,
80

neckties,
102
–3

New Moore Island,
84

Nixon, Richard,
37

North Korea,
66,
151

Northwest Passage,
83
,
87
,
119

nostalgia,
104
,
234

Notes from a Small Island
(Bryson),
174

Obama, Barack,
37
,
218

obstetrics, maps and,
245

Oetter, Doug,
48
,
133

“Old Maltese,”
179
,
181

OpenStreetMap,
228
–30

Ordnance Survey,
176

Ortelius, Abraham,
68

Page, Larry,
227

paintball, invented by Lewis Carroll,
213

Palin, Michael,
90
–91

Palin, Sarah,
37
,
151
–52

Parker, Mike,
65
,
112

path integration,
23
–24

Peace Corps,
43

Pepys, Samuel,
99

Perry, Matthew,
72

Persian Gulf,
72
–73

Peter Pan
(Barrie),
108

Peters, Arno,
222
–23

Philip’s (map publisher),
6

Phillippe, Ryan,
193

Photo-Auto Guides,
175

photography,
168
,
239
–40.
See also
aerial photogrammetry

Pike, Zebulon,
87

pilgrimage,
148
–49

Pilgrims,
Mayflower,
72
,
87

Pilgrim’s Progress, The
(Bunyan),
28

pirates,
61
–62,
108

Pitcairn Island,
152

place-names.
See
toponyms

Plessis, Denis Martineau du,
36

Poe, Edgar Allan,
184

POI (points of interest),
211
,
231

Poison, two-armed drummer from,
193

Pokémons, more interesting than actual animals,
45

populations,
4

Port-au-Prince, 2010 earthquake,
228
–30,
229

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A
(Joyce),
13

Potter, Jonathan,
82

Powers of Ten,
214

Pratchett, Terry,
118

Preuss, Charles,
247

Prime Meridian,
240

projections,
64
,
77
–78,
221
–24,
223

pronunciation of place-names,
73

Proust, Marcel,
73

Ptolemy,
77
,
86
–87

pundits,
89

“Purloined Letter, The” (Poe),
184

quadrangle maps,
60

Rademacher, Paul,
226
–27

Rand McNally,
175
–77,
234
–36,
244
,
246

corporate history of,
175
–76,
234
–35

Simpsons
joke about,
36

rebellib
stick charts,
20
,
21

Reagan, Ronald,
68

Remembrance of Things Past
(Proust),
73

Rennell, James,
89

Rhodes, Cecil,
207

rhumb lines,
221

Ringmann, Matthias,
76

road atlases,
148
,
160
,
167
,
175
–77,
235
–36

in map rallies,
177
–85

roadgeeks,
166
–73,
184
–85

as archaeologists,
172

and the Internet,
168

public servants,
171
–72

road rallies,
177
,
180

road signs,
167
,
171
–72

Robinson, Arthur,
222

Rockall,
161

role-playing games,
112
,
116

Roosevelt, Theodore,
58
,
165

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are
Dead
(Stoppard),
42

Rothman, Leonard,
97
–98,
101
–4

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
49

Rowling, J. K.,
199
–200,
213

Royal Geographical Society,
75
,
79
,
89
–91

Rumsey, David,
98

Salisbury,
3
rd Marquess of,
207

Salman, Benjamin,
109
–12,
129
–31,
134
,
137

Saltonstall, Wye,
45

Sanderson, Brandon,
113
–14,
116
–19

sandwich, Earth,
240
–42

Saturday Night Live,
38
,
223
–24

Scott, Robert Falcon,
90
,
205

Scripps National Spelling Bee,
124
,
146
–47

selective availability,
187

Seoul, South Korea.
See under
Jennings, Ken

Seven Cities of Gold,
85

Sexmoan, Philippines,
70

sexuality,
70
–71,
77

Shackleton, Ernest,
90

Shultz, George, leaky deck of,
98

Shuster, Bud,
170

Simon, Phil,
97
–98,
101
–4

Simpsons, The,
36

Sims, John and Ashley,
140

Sinclair, Jim and Sue,
177
–81,
183
–84

Singh, Nain,
89

Sloane, Hans,
98

Smiley, E. Forbes III,
93
–96

Smith, John,
71
–72,
94

Snaring, Caitlin,
127
–31,
137
,
142
,
146

snickerdoodle recipes.
See a cookbook

Snow, John,
59

social studies,
41

South Korea

map conflicts with Japan,
62
,
72

seen from space,
66

See also
Jennings, Ken: in Seoul

space exploration,
25
–26,
59

Spafford, John,
166
–68,
172
–73,
182

spatial cognition,
16
–29,
51
–52,
233

Speer, Albert,
58

Stanley, Henry Morton,
79