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Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 14:47:41 -0400
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Subject: Scandinavian maps exhibition dates; new Enterline book on
northern mapping
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Just a note on a couple of things:

"Scandia: Important Early maps of the Northern Regions and Maps and Charts
of Norway From the collection of William B. and Inger G. Ginsberg" is at
Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, near 38th Street [a few blocks south of
Grand Central Terminal] . The exhibition closes August 16, 2002.
Scandinavia House is closed on Saturdays in the summer, so please plan
accordingly.  Info at 212-879-9779.         The exhibition was beautifully
reviewed by Roberta Smith in the 4.26.02 NYTimes.  There is a catalog for
this exhibition, which of course has walked away from me, but I will post
the isbn and title asap.

Erikson, Eskimos & Columbus, Medieval European Knowledge of America, is the
newest book from independent scholar James Robert Enterline. You may know
of his earlier book, Viking America, the Norse  crossings and their legacy,
1972,  and his articles in "Terrae Incognitae, the journal for the History
of Discoveries."  Isbn for "Erikson, Eskimos & Columbus..." is
0-8018-6660-x

Both of these books belong in research map collections. If you are in the
metro area, do drop by to see the exhibition, and stop by the Map Division
to say hello. [Just not on Sundays or Mondays when we are not open!]

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788

[log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027

http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html


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