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Holds are growing for a book about the love of maps by the 74-time Jeopardy! winner, Ken Jennings, called Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks. He was interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air yesterday.
Unsurprisingly, he’s a big fan of the the maps division of the Library of Congress. He talks about being awestruck when he toured it.
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September 28th, 2011 at 11:38 am
[…] the risk of sounding extremely nerdy, here goes: EarlyWord is shining a spotlight on a book by the top jeopardy winner of all time, Ken Jennings. (link to […]