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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",sans-serif'>Dear members of International Society for the History of the Map (ISHM) and readers of postings to the ListServ of the ISHM:<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><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_Hlk499571860"><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-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 2017 issue recently published and mailed. See </span></a><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'>http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm</span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'> </span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'> 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. </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>"<i>THE PORTOLAN</i>": JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY<br>ISSUE 100 (Winter 2017)<br></span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>Issue 100 (Winter 2017), consisting of<span style='color:red'> </span>92<span style='color:red'> </span>pages, was published in November 2017 and is in distribution to all paid subscribers and members in good standing of the Washington Map Society. Copies are available for purchase.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>PJ MODE </span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>explains why map lovers should care about persuasive cartography and accept these as the important maps they are.<b> LEAH THOMAS </b>looks deeply at the maps of Sir Robert Dudley. <b>JEFF STONE</b> explores the use of newspaper/magazine maps during the Cold War period. <b>WES BROWN</b> identifies a cartographic curiosity on early maps of Colorado. <b>BERT JOHNSON</b> reflects on the activities at the July 2017 ICHC in Brazil. On the occasion of its 100<sup>th</sup> issue, <b>LEIGH LOCKWOOD </b>considers the importance of “THE PORTOLAN” to the growth and worldwide reach of the Washington Map Society. <b>LEIGH</b> also explores the map world in social communications and digital communication. Winners in the 2017 Ristow Prize competition are announced, there are<u> five</u> book reviews, and more.<span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>"The Portolan" is published three times per year; issue 101 is due for release in early March 2017.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>CONTENTS OF ISSUE 100 – Winter 2017<br></span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'> <br><b>ARTICLES<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><a name="_Hlk489957532"></a><a name="_Hlk493570944"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk489957532'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>“”Not Maps At All” – What Is Persuasive Cartography? And Why Does It Matter?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></a></span></p><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk493570944'></span><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk489957532'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>by PJ Mode</span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><a name="_Hlk491880115"><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>“Beauty and Commerce: Central Africa and Virginia in Sir Robert Dudley’s ‘Arcano del mare’” </span></a></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>by Leah Thomas <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><a name="_Hlk491880344"><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>“Air Age News Journal Maps as Historical Sources” by Jeffrey P. Stone </span></a><a name="_Hlk481605274"></a><a name="_Hlk491880260"></a><a name="_Hlk481849922"></a></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk481849922'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk491880260'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk481605274'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk481849922'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk491880260'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk481605274'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>“A Mystery Lake in Southern </span></span></span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk491880260'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk481605274'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>Colorado” </span></span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk481605274'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>by Wesley A. Brown </span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>“ICHC 2017 in Brazil – an after-action report” by Bert Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><a name="_Hlk481676977"></a><a name="_Hlk481850642"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk481676977'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>“Social Media and Digital Communication for Map Wonks” </span></span></a></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk481676977'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>by Leigh Lockwood</span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>“<i>The Portolan</i> issue #100 and the Washington Map Society” by Leigh Lockwood<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>RECENT PUBLICATIONS</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-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.</span> </span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>[This is Joel’s final compilation – and the journal relates the thanks of several frequent users of the feature. Leah Thomas succeeds Joel.]</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=Textkrper style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>BOOK REVIEWS<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span><a href="http://www.brill.com/products/book/early-dutch-maritime-cartography"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Early Dutch Maritime Cartography</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>(Reviewer: Dick Pflederer)</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span><a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674972117"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'>The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence</span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'> (</span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>Reviewer: Richard Brown)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span><a href="http://www.brill.com/products/book/frederick-de-wit-and-first-concise-reference-atlas"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'>Frederick de Wit and the First Concise Reference Atlas</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>(Reviewer: Ed Kirsch)</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><a name="_Hlk488523178"></a></span><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo24117604.html"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk488523178'>Picturing America – The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk488523178'></span></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk488523178'> </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk488523178'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>(Reviewer: Cassandra Farrell</span></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>)</span> <s><span style='color:red;letter-spacing:-.15pt'><o:p></o:p></span></s></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span><a href="https://www.birlinn.co.uk/Scotland-Mapping-the-Islands.html"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'>Scotland – Mapping the Islands</span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><i> </i></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>(Reviewer: Marianne McKee) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'> </span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>SHORTER ITEMS<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>President’s Winter 2017 Letter<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>2017 Ristow Prize Winners Announced<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>Washington Map Society Meetings: November 2017 – May 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>Exhibitions and Meetings<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>Map Site Seeing <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>6.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>Ristow Prize Competition 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>7.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>Cartographic Notes, by Thomas Sander<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>8.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Jocelyn Coulon, Ben Olshin, Don Perkins<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>9.Tributes and Thanks to Joel Kovarsky, Compiler, Recent Publications, 2007-2017 </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>AUTHORS OF ARTICLES AND REVIEWS<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>RICHARD H. BROWN</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>, a collector of maps and views of the French and Indian War and American Revolution, is vice chairman of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library and serves as a councilor of the American Antiquarian Society. He is co-author, with Paul Cohen, of “REVOLUTION: Mapping the Road to American Independence, 1755-1783”, reviewed in this journal’s issue 95 (Spring 2016).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>WESLEY BROWN</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'> co-founded the Rocky Mountain Map Society in 1981. He has been an avid map collector for 40 years specializing in early world maps and maps of the exploration and development of Colorado and the west. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>CASSANDRA BRITT FARRELL</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'> is Senior Map Archivist at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>BERT JOHNSON</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'> is a past president of WMS. He is a regular attendee is ICHC meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>ED KIRSCH</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'> is a collector of 16th century maps and reads as much on the subject as his law practice will allow. He reviewed “A World of Innovation - Cartography in the Time of Gerhard Mercator” in issue 95 (Spring 2016) of this journal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>JOEL KOVARSKY</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>, proprietor of The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books, is the author of the 2014 book “The True Geography of Our Country: Jefferson's Cartographic Vision.” For ten years he has compiled material for “Recent Publications”. His last compilation appears in this issue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>LEIGH LOCKWOOD</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'> is Webmaster of the Washington Map Society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>MARIANNE McKEE</span></b><i>, </i></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>the co-editor of “Virginia in Maps”, is a past President of the Washington Map Society and a Portolan contributor. She served for a number of years as the Map Specialist at the Library of Virginia.</span><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>PJ MODE </span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>is a recovering lawyer who has been studying and collecting old maps for almost 40 years. For more about his background and how he came to collect persuasive cartography, see</span> </span><a href="https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/" target="_blank"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><i>https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu</i></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><i><span style='color:black'>, "</span></i></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>About the Collection - A Personal Statement."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>RICHARD PFLEDERER </span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of “The Portolan”. He is the author of “Finding their Way at Sea”, the “Commentary” accompanying the recent facsimile edition of the Andrea Benincasa Atlas of 1476 and several reference books on the subject of portolan charts.<i> </i></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>ED REDMOND</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>, President of the Washington Map Society, is with the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>THOMAS SANDER </span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>is Editor of “The Portolan”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>JEFFREY STONE </span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>holds a PhD in Transatlantic History from the University of Texas at Arlington and specializes in the history of cartography. His study, “Mapping the “Red Menace”: British and American News Maps in the Early Cold War Period, 1945-1955”, won the 2008 Wolfskill Prize for outstanding dissertation. He currently teaches history at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>LEAH M. THOMAS </span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia State University in Petersburg. She earned her PhD in the interdisciplinary program Media, Art, & Text at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied the intersection between cartography and literature of the long eighteenth century.</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>Web Site for more information about the Washington Map Society: </span></span><a href="http://www.WashMapSociety.org"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>http://www.WashMapSociety.org</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'> <br>A <b>listing and index of the contents</b> of all issues of 'The Portolan' is accessible at </span></span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/Portolan-Indexes.htm"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>http://www.washmapsociety.org/Portolan-Indexes.htm</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'> <br>Also at </span></span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'> </span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'> is information<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>on <b>how to order and locate</b> issues of the journal, and procedures for prospective authors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>Online links to several past articles are also at the “Portolan” web page.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><b><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'>Membership in the Society and online registration now includes access online to all current and past issues of “The Portolan.”</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk499571860'><span style='font-family:"Univers",sans-serif'><br> <br><b>Membership/Subscription Cost:</b> Subscription cost is the same as membership, and may be commenced at any time. 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