Dear members of the list: 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 http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm for details on ordering the current or past issues of “The Portolan”. 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. "THE PORTOLAN": JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY ISSUE 100 (Winter 2017) -------------------------------------------------------------- Issue 100 (Winter 2017), consisting of 92 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. PJ MODE explains why map lovers should care about persuasive cartography and accept these as the important maps they are. LEAH THOMAS looks deeply at the maps of Sir Robert Dudley. JEFF STONE explores the use of newspaper/magazine maps during the Cold War period. WES BROWN identifies a cartographic curiosity on early maps of Colorado. BERT JOHNSON reflects on the activities at the July 2017 ICHC in Brazil. On the occasion of its 100th issue, LEIGH LOCKWOOD considers the importance of “THE PORTOLAN” to the growth and worldwide reach of the Washington Map Society. LEIGH also explores the map world in social communications and digital communication. Winners in the 2017 Ristow Prize competition are announced, there are five book reviews, and more. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The Portolan" is published three times per year; issue 101 is due for release in early March 2017. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTENTS OF ISSUE 100 – Winter 2017 ARTICLES “”Not Maps At All” – What Is Persuasive Cartography? And Why Does It Matter?” by PJ Mode “Beauty and Commerce: Central Africa and Virginia in Sir Robert Dudley’s ‘Arcano del mare’” by Leah Thomas “Air Age News Journal Maps as Historical Sources” by Jeffrey P. Stone “A Mystery Lake in Southern Colorado” by Wesley A. Brown “ICHC 2017 in Belo Horizonte – an after-action report” by Bert Johnson “Social Media and Digital Communication for Map Wonks” by Leigh Lockwood “The Portolan issue #100 and the Washington Map Society” by Leigh Lockwood RECENT PUBLICATIONS 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. [This is Joel’s final compilation – and the journal relates the thanks of several frequent users of the feature. Leah Thomas succeeds Joel.] BOOK REVIEWS Early Dutch Maritime Cartography<http://www.brill.com/products/book/early-dutch-maritime-cartography> (Reviewer: Dick Pflederer) The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674972117> (Reviewer: Richard Brown) Frederick de Wit and the First Concise Reference Atlas<http://www.brill.com/products/book/frederick-de-wit-and-first-concise-reference-atlas> (Reviewer: Ed Kirsch) Picturing America – The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo24117604.html> (Reviewer: Cassandra Farrell) Scotland – Mapping the Islands<https://www.birlinn.co.uk/Scotland-Mapping-the-Islands.html> (Reviewer: Marianne McKee) SHORTER ITEMS 1. President’s Winter 2017 Letter 2. 2017 Ristow Prize Winners Announced 3. Washington Map Society Meetings: November 2017 – May 2018 4. Exhibitions and Meetings 5. Map Site Seeing 6. Ristow Prize Competition 2018 7. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas Sander 8. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Jocelyn Coulon, Ben Olshin, Don Perkins 9.Tributes and Thanks to Joel Kovarsky, Compiler, Recent Publications, 2007-2017 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AUTHORS OF ARTICLES AND REVIEWS RICHARD H. BROWN, 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). WESLEY BROWN 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. CASSANDRA BRITT FARRELL is Senior Map Archivist at the Library of Virginia in Richmond. BERT JOHNSON is a past president of WMS. He is a regular attendee is ICHC meetings. ED KIRSCH 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. JOEL KOVARSKY, 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. LEIGH LOCKWOOD is Webmaster of the Washington Map Society. MARIANNE McKEE, 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. PJ MODE 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 https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu<https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/>, "About the Collection - A Personal Statement." RICHARD PFLEDERER 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. ED REDMOND, President of the Washington Map Society, is with the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress. THOMAS SANDER is Editor of “The Portolan”. JEFFREY STONE 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. LEAH M. THOMAS 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. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Web Site for more information about the Washington Map Society: http://www.WashMapSociety.org A listing and index of the contents of all issues of 'The Portolan' is accessible at http://www.washmapsociety.org/Portolan-Indexes.htm Also at http://www.washmapsociety.org/TPJ2.htm is information on how to order and locate issues of the journal, and procedures for prospective authors. Online links to several past articles are also at the “Portolan” web page. Membership in the Society and online registration now includes access online to all current and past issues of “The Portolan.” Membership/Subscription Cost: 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. 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