The Portolan

Issue #92 - Spring 2015

 ARTICLES

Mapping Armageddon: The Cartography of Ruin in Occupied Japan, by David Fedman

Lewis Evans' Map of the Middle British Colonies, by Joel Kovarsky

The Battle of the White House after the Burning of Washington, by Patrick L. O’Neill

Cartography’s Final Frontier: Mapping the Topology of the Human Brain, by John Hessler

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.

BOOK REVIEWS

Collecting Old Maps (Reviewer: Bert Johnson)

Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps (Reviewer: Eliane Dotson)

Maps: Their Untold Stories (Reviewer: Evelyn Edson)

The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps (Reviewer: Richard Pflederer)

Landmarks in Mapping: 50 Years of The Cartographic Journal (Reviewer: Bob Hansen)

Manhattan in Maps, 1527-2014 (Reviewer: David Y. Allen)

The Life of Abraham Lincoln Map (Reviewer: Earl McElfresh)

Sea Monsters – A Voyage around the World’s Most Beguiling Map (Reviewer: Jeff Lee)

SHORTER ITEMS

1. President’s Spring 2015 Letter, by Ted Callaway

2. Washington Map Society Meetings: April - September 2015

3. Exhibitions and Meetings

4. Map Site Seeing

5. Ristow Prize Competition 2015

6. Letter to the Editor

7. ICHC 26 – Antwerp Update, by Bert Johnson

8. WMS Members at the 2014 Seoul IMCoS Symposium, by John Docktor

9. Spotlight on the WMS Membership – Sammy Berk, Jeffrey Katz, Glen McLaughlin

10. Cartographic Notes, by Thomas Sander