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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks is a nonfiction exploration of cartography, geography enthusiasm, and the communities that form around maps. Ken Jennings, widely known for his Jeopardy! record and for writing about trivia culture, approaches maps as both a lifelong personal obsession and a cultural artifact. The book is not a technical cartography manual; it is a broad, witty survey of why humans make maps, why some people collect or study them intensely, and how mapping habits have changed from paper atlases to GPS and Google Earth. Jennings blends history, reporting, memoir, and popular science, moving among antique map collectors, National Geographic Bee contestants, geocachers, highpointers, fantasy mapmakers, road enthusiasts, and digital mapping specialists. Its purpose is to show that maps are not merely navigational tools. They are records of curiosity, power, imagination, memory, and identity, revealing how people organize space and make the world intellectually manageable.