Man of Direction: Henry Wendt’s Lifelong Fascination With Maps Helps Create A Hugely Popular Museum Exhibit Reporter Meg McConahey: “Quivira was a mythical kingdom in the faraway Americas, a wealthy civilization whose enlightened people, it was said, dined off golden dishes and traded with Cathay… It would take a 20th-century pharmaceutical executive, long captivated by [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
“Marin Independent Journal”
May 20, 2010 – 9:52 pm
The Land of Imagination Reporter Leslie Harlib: “Early maps were as much about fantasy as they were practical tools for navigation. They are, to be sure, stunningly illustrated charts of land masses and sea currents, as accurate as the hand-held compasses and astrolabes of the time could make them. But they also portray sea monsters, [...]
“The San Francisco Chronicle”
May 20, 2010 – 9:44 pm
A Bay Area Vintner’s Fascination With The Way Things Were Inspires A Passion For Both Ancient Maps and Creek Restoration A wonderful interview by Jesse Hamlin with Mapping the Pacific Coast exhibition owner Henry Wendt, in which sea monsters, a unicorn with a fish tail, and a scary beast with a bird head, reptilian body and [...]