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Title: A minor disappointment
Review: As a map collector I looked forward to this book but wound up disappointed. Harvey's writing is sophmoric at worst and average at best. He loses track of the thread of the story and rambles on about Graham Arader (who evidently snowed Harvey and got some free press). He sheds very little light on the map thief himself, but rehashes old newspaper articles and really does not come up with anything new. The book is physically unattractive, but that is not his fault. The author tries to personalize the quest but that device is so strained that it is not worthy of a freshmen English essay. The book's redeeming feature is that it brings awareness of map theft to the greater public and perhaps next time Gilbert Bland (the thief) will not get off so lightly.
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