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What should one expect from an author named "Conwell"? Pace. Carl Schuster
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Browsing the New Books shelves at our local public library, I couldn't
resist one with the title "The Puzzle of Piri Reis". Some of the
workings of this mystery story were okay, not great, but the writer
knows absolutely nothing about maps, must have read something about the
Piri Reis map and simply took off from there. You have to read it to
believe how bad his treatment of old maps is. His victim bought a Piri
Reis map. Wow! The author gives it a value of one to two million.
Hah! The author seems to think of the map only as an art work, thinks
an art museum would want it, never mentions anything about cartographic
history, map dealers, map collectors, map collections. The one book the
map owner prized is "Encyclopedia of Ancient Phoenician Maps". I can't
help but wonder if the publisher, Avalon Books, employs an editor?
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