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I enjoyed::

How the book ties together quite a lot of trivia in a format that allows a smooth transition from one fact to the next.

Anecdotes from the writer's personal life. Also, he seemed to make the conversational tone of the book work very well.

I didn't enjoy::

The lack of globally relevant material
This was unexpected and a big disappointment. Maphead is clearly written by an American aimed at Americans, which is a shame because throughout Maphead, Jennings passionately derides US-centricity as a way of global approach. The book also missed some background info where it was due. As someone who has never been to the US, I have trouble understanding entire chapters about American road signs and interstate system if I'm not eased into it.

Or the crude attempts at humour:

Many cases of twentieth-century American map geekdom, it seems, began the same way that many twentieth-century Americans began: conceived in the backseats of Buicks.

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He testified that, on his wedding night, he even kept his new bride waiting in bed while he polished the covers of his beloved rare books. Perhaps she misunderstood when he warned her he was into “leather binding.�