The Island of Lost Maps by Miles Harvey

Author:Miles Harvey [Harvey, Miles]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-76656-4
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2010-10-06T04:00:00+00:00

While I have no idea whether Rolle was right about the Pathfinder, I tend to be wary of writers who depend too heavily on pop psych generalizations about their subjects. And, since I have absolutely no professional expertise in matters of the mind, I am neither willing nor able to make any such sweeping statements about Bland. All I can safely conclude is that he, too, possessed a self-destructive attraction to danger, and that it had been with him for a long time. Perhaps it was already there on that summer night in Bayonne in 1968. If so, it would have been one more thing he had in common with John Charles Frémont—who also got in trouble at age eighteen, when he was dismissed from college for “habitual irregularity and incorrigible negligence.”23 Both Frémont and Bland would then turn to the military—in which both would use their keen intelligence to earn technology-focused assignments, and which both would eventually leave under a dark cloud (in Frémont’s case, resignation after a court-martial for “mutiny, disobedience, and conduct prejudicial to military discipline”).24 But, long before that happened, each man would head off to a place that would change his life—a place, as Frémont put it, “of strange scenes and occurrences.”25 For the Pathfinder, of course, that place was the American West. For the map thief, it was a very different sort of wilderness.

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