The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime | 
panThe history of mapmaking and of map stealing is the only interesting things I read in this book. Most of it is what the author thinks are clever allegories instead of actually discussing the thefts that the man who‘s supposedly the main focus of his book did and their impact. Needed more of that, less of the allegories.
1.5/5 read if you like author invoked investigation books, like the Orchid Thief. I don‘t, so I don‘t recommend it.
iread2much The author is correct in that librarians and libraries don‘t protect their materials enough, but he‘s very wrong with his warnings that libraries will become too restrictive in their loaning of materials-no one cares enough for books and materials in the collections to pay for real security, let along to actually protect the materials. At least in my decade in libraries. 1y
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