Terrae Incognitae

Contents of Vol 36, 2004

Contributors

Nicholas Bomba is a graduate student at Princeton University; his essay received Honorable Mention in this year’s student essay contest.

Brian Hooker, who has contributed to this journal before, lives in New Zealand, and has a particular interest in South Pacific history.

Ken MacMillan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary, in Canada.

Christopher Morris, whose paper was presented at the New Orleans meeting of the Society, teaches in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Jim Mockford, who lives in Brush Prairie, Washington, is a Japanese specialist who presented a first version of this paper at the Society’s meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Hilary Palmer, an African specialist, teaches in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter in England.

Francesc Relaño is a scholar of medieval European cartography, working at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Articles

Francesc Relaño	Paradise in Africa: The History of a Geographical Myth From its Origins in Medieval Thought to its Gradual Demise in Early Modern Europe	1
Ken MacMillan	Disclosing a Great Error: John Dee’s Answer to the Papal Bull Inter Caetera	12
Brian Hooker	The European Discovery of the Tonga Islands	20
Christopher Morris	Finding Louisiana: La Salle’s Encounter with the Mississippi River Delta	28
Jim Mockford	The Journal of a Tour Across the Continent of New Spain From St. Blas in the North Pacific Ocean to La Vera Cruz in the Gulph of Mexico	42
Nicholas Bomba	The Brivazac Reports of 1818: Rivalry and Strategic Interest in the Northwest Passage	59
Hilary C. Palmer	Lieutenant H.E. O’Neill RN v. The Reverend W.P. Johnson: The Controversy Surrounding the True Source of The Lujenda River	70
Current Bibliography
Fred Musto	Recent Literature in Discovery History	83
Book Reviews
Stephen Adams	The Best and the Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape Reviewed by David Narrett	97
Stephen Ausband	Byrd’s Line; A Natural History Reviewed by Richard Stephenson	99
Barton H. Barbour	Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade Reviewed by Charles Hope	100
Guy Benson et al.	Lewis and Clark; The Maps of Exploration 1507-1814 Reviewed by Eric Wolf	101
Colin Calloway	One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark Reviewed by D. Paul Webb	103
Michael Cooper, ed.	Joao Rodrigues’s Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan Reviewed by Richard Pflederer	103
Andrew David et al., Eds.	The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina. Volume II. Panama to the Philippines Reviewed by Luisa Martin-Merás	105
Richard C. Davis, ed.	The Central Australian Expedition 1844-1846: The Journals of Charles Sturt Reviewed by Karen Cook	106
John Dunmore, tr. and ed.	The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768 Reviewed by Sanford Bederman	108
Mick Gidley, ed.	Edward S. Curtis and the North American Project in the Field Reviewed by Kenneth Philp	109
Carolyn Hall and Hector Pérez Brignoli	Historical Atlas of Central America Reviewed by Douglas Peck	110
Derek Hayes	Historical Atlas of the Arctic Reviewed by H. G. Jones	111
Robinson Herrera	Natives, Europeans and Africans in Sixteenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala Reviewed by Douglas Richmond	112
John Kendrick	Alejandro Malaspina: Portrait of a Visionary Reviewed by Dennis Reinhartz	113
V.S. Koryakin	Frederick Albert Cook 1865-1940 Reviewed by Dennis Reinhartz	114
Russell Lawson	Passaconaway’s Realm: Captain John Evans and the Exploration of Mount Washington Reviewed by C.E. Kylander	115
James McCarthy	Journey into Africa: The Life and Death of Keith Johnston, Scottish Cartographer and Explorer (1844-1879) Reviewed by Sanford Bederman	116
Gavin Menzies	1421: The Year China Discovered America Reviewed by David Buisseret	118
Paula Rebert	La Gran Línea: Mapping the United-States Mexico Boundary Reviewed by William Stanley	118
Encylopedias
Raymond Howgego	Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800.	121
Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs, eds.	The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing	121
Jennifer Speake, ed.	Literature of Travel and Exploration	121

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