Terrae Incognitae

Contents of Vol 33, 2001

Contributors

Susan Danforth, a former President of the Society, has worked for many years at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Her particular research interest is the mapping of the Americas.

Iris Engstrand, another longtime member of the Society, is head of the Department of History at the University of San Diego.

Paul Mapp is a graduate student at Harvard University. His essay won the Society's prize for the year 2000.

Fred Musto is Curator of the Map Collection, Yale University Library, and has for some years provided our annual listing of literature in discovery history.

John Parker retired after many years as the director of the James Ford Bell Library in Minneapolis; he is one of the founding members of the Society.

Neil Safier is a graduate student at The Johns Hopkins University. His essay won the Society's prize for the year 1999, and has been somewhat modified since then.

John Thrower is a longstanding English member of the Society, particularly interested in the investigation of early sites.

Articles

John Parker	In memory of Thomas Goldstein	vii
John Thrower	Colonial Nombre de Dios - the "Treasure Mouth of the World"	1
Paul Mapp	French Reactions to the British Search for a Northwest Passage from Hudson Bay and the Origins of the Seven Years' War	13
Neil Safier	Unveiling the Amazon to European Science and Society: the Reading and Reception of La Condamine's Relation Abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'Intérieur de l'Amérique méridionale (1745)	33
Susan Danforth	Cultivating Empire: Sir Joseph Banks and the (failed) Botanical Garden at Nassau	48
Iris Engstrand	Spanish Naturalists in Cuba and the West Indies 1795-1802	59
Current Bibliography
Fred Musto	Recent Literature in Discovery History	69
Book Reviews
Richard Adams	Rio Azul, An Ancient Maya City Reviewed by Douglas Peck	85
Fabio Bourbon	The Lost Cities of the Mayas: the Life, Art and Discoveries of Frederick Catherwood Reviewed by Douglas Richmond	86
William Fitzhugh and Elisabeth Ward	Vikings, the North Atlantic Saga Reviewed by Arne Molander	87
Malcolm Lewis, ed.	Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use Reviewed by Richard Francaviglia	88
Edward Dahl and Jean-François Gauvin	Sphaerae Mundi Reviewed by Richard Pflederer	90
Peter Russell	Prince Henry 'the Navigator': A Life Reviewed by Richard Betz	92
Tzvetan Todorov	The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other Reviewed by Douglas Peck	93
Gregory McIntosh	The Piri Reis Map of 1523 Reviewed by Dennis Reinhartz	95
Stephen Summerhill and John Williams	Sinking Columbus Reviewed by David Buisseret	96
Elly Dekker	Globes at Greenwich Reviewed by Edward Dahl	96
David Quinn	European Approaches to North America, 1450-1640 Reviewed by Gregory McIntosh	98
Mary Lovell	A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton Reviewed by Penelope Betz	99
W.G.L. Randles	Geography, Cartography and Nautical Science in the Renaissance Reviewed by David Buisseret	100
Jan Glete	Warfare at Sea, 1500-1650: Maritime Warfare and the Transformation of Europe Reviewed by Alistair Maeer	101
David Clark and Stephen Clark	Newton's Tyranny Reviewed by Norman Thrower	102
George Tolias	The Portolan Charts, 15th-17th Centuries Reviewed by Russell Magnaghi	103
A.L. Rice	Voyages of Discovery: Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration Reviewed by David Buisseret	105
Richard Francaviglia	The Cast Iron Forest: A Natural and Cultural History of the North American Cross Timbers Reviewed by Paula Rebert	106
John Kendrick	Alejandro Malaspina: Portrait of a Visionary Reviewed by Dee Longenbaugh	107
Julie Codell and Dianne Macleod, eds.	Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture Reviewed by Bruce Lenman	109
Gary Moulton, ed.	The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, vol. 12 Reviewed by John Parker	111
William Barr, ed.	Searching for Franklin Reviewed by H.G.Jones	112

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