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<font color="#0000FF"><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"><font size="2">"</font><i>THE PORTOLAN</i>": JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY</span></b></span></font>
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<font color="#FF0000">ISSUE 105 </font>(FALL 2019)</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk499571860" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">Thrice-yearly journal with articles on maps, the</span></a><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">
history of cartography,
and exploration is the only journal of its kind in the Americas. See
</span></span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm" target="_blank"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><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></p>
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Issue 105 (Fall 2019), consisting of 82 pages, was published in August
2019 and is in distribution to all paid subscribers and print-issue
members in good standing of the Washington Map Society. Copies are
available for purchase.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif;">HAL MEINHEIT
</span></b></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif;">relates the story of British surveyor James McCarthy who mapped even the remotest areas of Siam in the late 1800’s.
</span></span><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif;">JACOB SINGER,
</span></b></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif;">awarded honorable mention in the 2018 Ristow Prize competition, describes the
<span style="color: black; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">mapping of northwest America in the mid-eighteenth century.
</span></span></span><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: black; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">RICK LAPRAIRIE
</span></b></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: black; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">shares the discovery of the first map to name Toronto.
</span></span><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: black; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">JOHN HESSLER
</span></b></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; color: black; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">describes
the recent acquisition by the Library of Congress of a rare eighteenth
century carving of a Theravada Buddhist cosmography.
</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial", sans-serif;">There is more, including three book reviews.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">"The Portolan" is published three times per year; issue 106 is due for release in late-November 2019.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font color="#0000FF"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"> </span></span></font><font size="2"><font color="#0000FF"><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">CONTENTS OF ISSUE 105 – Fall 2019</span></b></span></font><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">
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<b>ARTICLES</b></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">“The Man Who Mapped Siam: James McCarthy and the Royal Survey Department,” by Hal Meinheit
<span style="color: red;"></span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">“Exercises of Imagination and Speculation:
</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif; color: black; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Mapping Northwest America in the Mid-Eighteenth Century,” b</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">y
Jacob Singer <u>2018 RISTOW HONORABLE MENTION</u> <span style="color: red;"></span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">“</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">The First Map to Use the Name Toronto:
Recently Discovered on a Three and a Half Century Old Map,” by Rick Laprairie
<u><span style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0);"></span></u></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><font size="2"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">“</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">Rising to the First – An interview
with Dr. Paulette Hasier,” by John Hessler</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">RECENT PUBLICATIONS</span></b></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">
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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 Leah Thomas.
</span></span><span style=""></span><span style=""></span><span style=""></span><span style=""></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">BOOK REVIEWS</span></b></span><span style=""><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""></span><a href="https://brill.com/view/title/34897?lang=en" target="_blank"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;" lang="EN-GB">Creating the
Mediterranean:</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB">
</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">Maps and the Islamic Imagination</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;" lang="EN-GB">
(Reviewer: Dick Pflederer</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""></span><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo28179104.html" target="_blank"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;" lang="EN-GB">Lost Maps
of the Caliphs, Drawing the World in Eleventh Century Cairo</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">(Reviewer: Cyrus Ala’i)
<span style="color: red;"></span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""></span><a href="https://shop.vibalgroup.com/products/philippine-cartography-4th-edition" target="_blank"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">Philippine Cartography
1320-1899 – Fourth Edition</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"> (Reviewer: Hal Meinheit)
</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">SHORTER ITEMS</span></b></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">AUTHORS OF ARTICLES AND REVIEWS</span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">CYRUS ALA’I
</span></b></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">has
since 1984 studied the history of cartography and collected old maps of
Persia. The writer of many articles, most on Islamic mapping, he is
author</span></span><span style=""><strong><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">
</span></strong></span><span style=""><strong><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">of two books:
<i>“</i>General Maps of Persia, 1477-1925<i>” </i>and <i>“</i>Special Maps of Persia 1477-1925.”</span></strong></span><span style=""><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">
</span></i></strong></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">JOHN HESSLER,
</span></b></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">FRGS,
is Curator, Kislak Collection of the History & Archaeology of the
Early Americas at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.</span></span><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">BERT JOHNSON</span></b></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"> is past Vice President of
the Washington Map Society </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">RICK LAPRAIRIE
</span></b></span><span style=""><span class="a1"><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif; color: rgb(35, 31, 32);" lang="EN">is a geographer who specialized in natural resource and land use planning policy. An aficionado of historical
maps, he has studied the early cartography of the Great Lakes region for more than 25 years.</span></span></span><span style=""><span class="a1"><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32);" lang="EN">
</span></span></span><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">HAL MEINHEIT
</span></b></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">is
a former American diplomat who spent much of his career in Asia,
including four years in Thailand. He is currently secretary of the
Washington Map
Society.</span></span><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">DICK PFLEDERER
</span></b></span><span style=""><em><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif; font-style: normal;">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 about portolan charts.</span></em></span><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">THOMAS SANDER</span></b></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"> is Editor of “The Portolan”.</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font size="2"><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">JACOB SINGER</span></b><i><span style="color: black;">,
</span></i></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif; color: black;">a
graduate of Wesleyan University, was cited for Honorable Mention in the
2018 Competition for the Walter W. Ristow Prize for an Academic Paper
in the History of Cartography. </span></span><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">LEAH M. THOMAS</span></b></span><span style=""><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 eighteenth century. </span></span><span style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"></span></span></font></p>
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Web Site for more information about the Washington Map Society: </span></span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/" target="_blank"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">http://www.WashMapSociety.org</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">
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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" target="_blank"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">http://www.washmapsociety.org/Portolan-Indexes.htm</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">
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Also at </span></span><a href="http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm" target="_blank"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style="">
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<b>how to order and locate</b> issues of the journal, and procedures for prospective authors.</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">Online links to several past articles are also at the “Portolan” web page.</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style=""><b><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;"><font color="#FF0000">Membership in the Society </font>and online registration now includes access online to all current and past issues of “The Portolan.”</span></b></span><span style=""><span style="font-family: "Univers", sans-serif;">
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to other foreign addresses. Payment is accepted in US dollars only, and
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