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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>This thrice-yearly journal with articles on maps, the history of cartography, and exploration is the only journal of its kind in the Americas. Below is information on the Winter 2013 issue recently published. See <a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/The-Portolan-Journal.htm">http://www.washmapsociety.org/The-Portolan-Journal.htm</a> for details on ordering the current or past issues of “<i>The Portolan”</i>. That link also takes the reader to the contents list of all back issues and an index to those issues. The focus of the society and the journal is not solely Washington; topics are widespread in scope. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>"<i>THE PORTOLAN</i>": JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY<br>ISSUE 88 (Winter 2013)<br></span></b><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>Issue 88 (Winter 2013), consisting of<span style='color:red'> </span>72 pages, was published in December 2013 and is in distribution to all paid subscribers and members in good standing of the Washington Map Society. Copies are available for purchase.<span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif";color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>BILL WOOLDRIDGE and MARIANNE McKEE introduce three Virginia mapmakers who have gotten little attention. HARRIE TEUNISSEN claims little attention has been paid in studying the Holocaust using contemporary maps; his article describes how this can be done. SCOTT KRAMER traces the story of a group of phantom islands in the Pacific Ocean – from discovery to erasure from the map. BERT JOHNSON describes activities last July at the biennial International Conference on the History of Cartography. RALPH EHRENBERG remembers the late Dick Stephenson. The 2013 Ristow Prize honorees are identified. Three books are reviewed. And there is more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif";color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>"The Portolan" is published three times per year; issue 89 is due for release in March 2014.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>CONTENTS OF ISSUE 88 – Winter 2013<br></span></b><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'> <br><b>ARTICLES<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=Textkrper style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers","serif"'>“Trouble in Mapland: The Absconder, the Debtor, and the Affabulateur (Frederick Bossler, Samuel Lewis, and John Francis Renault)”, by William Wooldridge and Marianne McKee<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textkrper style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers","serif"'>“The Holocaust in Contemporary Maps”, by Harrie Teunissen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textkrper style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers","serif"'>“Erased from Maps: A Cartographic History of the Margaret’s Islands”, by Scott Kramer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textkrper style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers","serif"'>“ICHC 2013 in Helsinki – An After-Action Report”, by Bert Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textkrper style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers","serif"'>“Remembrance – Richard W. Stephenson”, by Ralph Ehrenberg</span><span lang=DE style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><b><span lang=DE style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>RECENT PUBLICATIONS</span></b><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><br>This regular feature, a bibliographic listing of articles and books appearing worldwide on antique maps and globes and the history of cartography, is compiled by Joel Kovarsky. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif";color:#C00000'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>BOOK REVIEWS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo13107150.html">Ancient Perspectives: Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome</a></span></span><i> </i><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>(The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography) (Reviewer: John Hessler) </span><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780670023394,00.html?A_History_of_the_World_in_12_Maps_Jerry_Brotton">A History of the World in Twelve Maps</a></span></span> (<span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>Reviewer: Richard Pflederer) </span><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Envisioning-World-First-Printed-1472-1700/dp/1457848562">Envisioning The World - First Printed Maps, 1472 – 1700</a></span></span><i> </i><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>(Reviewer: William A. Stanley) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>SHORTER ITEMS</span></b><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif";color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>1. Washington Map Society Meetings, January – May 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>2. President’s Winter 2013 Letter, by J.C. McElveen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>3. 2013 Ristow Prize Winners Announced<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers","serif"'>4. Exhibitions and Meetings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>5. Map Site Seeing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>6. Passing of Gary North<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>7. Ristow Prize Competition 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>8. Library of Congress Exhibits Rare Abel Buell Map of the US from 1784, by Tom Sander <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>9. Map Conference October 11-12, 2013 at Winterthur, by John Docktor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>10. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Frederik Muller, Josef Ruth, Elizabeth Welles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>11. Letters to the Editor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>12. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas Sander<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>AUTHORS OF ARTICLES AND REVIEWS <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>JOHN DOCKTOR is past president of the Washington Map Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>RALPH EHRENBERG is Chief, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>JOHN W. HESSLER is Cartographic Reference Specialist, Geography and Map Division Library of Congress and Curator, Jay I. Kislak Collection for the History of the Early Americas. Among his many writings are “The Naming of America – Martin Waldseemüller 1507 World Map and the ‘Cosmographiae Introductio’”, and, with Chet Van Duzer, “Seeing the World Anew – The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 & 1516 World Maps.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>SCOTT KRAMER received his master’s degree in Japanese history from the University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa. He is currently writing a book-length manuscript on the discovery and colonization of the Bonin Islands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>A graduate of the Catholic University of America School of Library Science, MARIANNE M. MCKEE retired in early 2005 from the Library of Virginia, where she worked full-time since 1982 and with the map collection since 1987.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>RIXHARD PFLEDERER is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of “The Portolan” and is a frequent contributor to the journal. He is the author of several reference books on the subject of Portolan charts, the latest “Finding Their Way at Sea: the Story of Portolan Charts, the Cartographers who Drew Them and the Mariners who Sailed by Them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>THOMAS SANDER is editor of “The Portolan”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>WILLIAM A. STANLEY is Retired Chief Historian, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Owner of Cartographic Associates, antique map and print dealer.</span><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>HARRIE TEUNISSEN was Assistant Professor in Theological and Historical Pedagogy at the University of Amsterdam. This article is a slightly condensed version of a presentation given at the international workshop ‘Geography and Holocaust Research’.</span><i><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=Textkrper style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Textkrper style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers","serif"'>WILLIAM C. WOOLDRIDGE is a longtime member of the Washington Map Society and contributor to “The Portolan”. He has given cartographic history presentations at Colonial Williamsburg, Old Salem and the Virginia Forum, and is the author of “Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>Web Site for more information about the Washington Map Society: <a href="http://www.WashMapSociety.org">http://www.WashMapSociety.org</a> <br>A <b>listing and index of the contents</b> of all issues of 'The Portolan' is accessible at <a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/Portolan-Indexes.htm">http://www.washmapsociety.org/Portolan-Indexes.htm</a> <br>Also at <a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/The-Portolan-Journal.htm">http://www.washmapsociety.org/The-Portolan-Journal.htm</a> is information<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>on how to order and locate issues of the journal, and procedures for prospective authors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>Online links to several past articles are also at the “Portolan” web page.<br> <br><b>Membership/Subscription Cost:</b> Subscription cost is the same as membership, and may be commenced at any time. To U.S. addresses, the cost is US $45.00 per year. To Canadian addresses the rate is US$50.00 per year. For other foreign addressees, the annual cost is US$ 65.00. Multiple year memberships/ subscriptions are available; the annual cost is reduced if a multiple year membership is chosen – see web site. All non-US address copies of the journal are sent airmail; the US Postal Service no longer offers a surface option. Payment is accepted in US dollars only. Payment may be made via PayPal for membership/subscriptions and back issues. Membership/ subscription/PayPal details form can be found at the Washington Map Society Web Site below. For further information, contact John Docktor at <a href="mailto:washmap@gmail.com">washmap@gmail.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'><br><b>Current/Past Copies</b>: Copies of 'The Portolan' beginning with issue 66 cost US$16.00 postpaid for US; $18 postpaid to Canada, and $23 to other foreign addresses. Payment is accepted in US dollars only, and may be paid via check or PayPal. Issues 65 and earlier are available at a lower cost. A discount is given for orders of multiple issues. See </span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/Purchase-of-Back-Issues.htm">http://www.washmapsociety.org/Purchase-of-Back-Issues.htm</a><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'> for details on ordering the current or past Portolans.<br> <br>****************************************<br>Posted By:<br>Thomas F. Sander<br>Editor, 'The Portolan'<br>Washington Map Society<br>9501 Burke Road, # 10793<br>Burke, VA 22009-8036 USA<br> <br>Phone: 703.426.2880 International: +1.703.426.2880 Fax: 703.426.2881 <br>E-mail: Sanderva@erols.com<br>Washington Map Society Web Site: <a href="http://www.WashMapSociety.org%20%0b">www.WashMapSociety.org <span style='color:blue'><br></span></a>Portolan Web Site: <a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/The-Portolan-Journal.htm">http://www.washmapsociety.org/The-Portolan-Journal.htm</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Univers","serif"'>**************************************************<br><br>excuse cross-posting<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>