Terrae Incognitae

Contents Vol 37, 2005

Contributors

Conrad Heidenreich, who presented his paper at the Cody (WY) meeting, is a Canadian scholar particularly well known for Huronia: A History and Geography of the Huron Indians, 1600-1650 (Toronto, 1971).

Daniel Murphree is an assistant professor of History at the University of Texas at Tyler and current list-editor of the online discussion-group H-Florida.

Earnest Porta, a graduate student in history at George Mason University, submitted this paper for the student essay competition.

Alexey Postnikov is a Russian scholar, Deputy Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences; he has specialized in the history of Russian cartography.

Paula Rebert, a longtime member of the Society and author of La Gran Linea: Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857 (Austin, 2001), read this paper at the Cody (WY) meeting of the Society.

Christopher Slogar, the winner of the 2004 SHD student essay competition, is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland.

Joyce Wright is a scholar from South Mountain, Ontario. She is the author of Numbers: A Message from the Past (The London Museum of Archaeology: London, Ont., 1999).

Articles

Joyce Wright	True Peoples and Their Monsters: Speculations on the Other in the Age of Exploration	1
Christopher Slogar	Polyphemus africanus: Mapping Cannibals in the History of the Cross River Region of Nigeria, ca. 1500-1985	16
Conrad Heidenreich	The Changing Role of Natives in the Exploration of Canada: Cartier (1534) to Mackenzie (1793)	28
Daniel Murphree	Perpetuating a Mythical Paradise: Transnational Visions of the Colonial Floridas	41
Alexey Postnikov	The First Russian Voyage around the World and its Influence on the Exploration and Development of Russian America	53
Earnest Porta	John Lloyd Stephens, Frederick Catherwood and the Collaboration of Art and Science in the Rediscovery of Maya Civilization	63
Paula Rebert	Views of the Borderlands: The Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, 1857-1859	75
Debates and Corrections
Andrew David	The List of Charts and Drawings Brought Back to England from Monterey by Broughton in 1793	91
Current Bibliography
Fred Musto	Recent Literature in Discovery History	95
Book Reviews
Alan Day	Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia Reviewed by Eric W. Wolf	109
Dayton Duncan	Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis and Clark Reviewed by John Parker	110
Orcutt Frost	Bering; The Russian Discovery of America Reviewed by Dennis Reinhartz	111
Peter Ulf Moller and Natasha Okhotina Lind, eds.	Under Vitus Bering’s Command: New Perspectives on the Russian Kamchatka Expeditions Reviewed by Dennis Reinhartz	111
Peter Galvin	Patterns of Pillage Reviewed by Tim Sullivan	113
Marcus Rediker	Villains of all Nations Reviewed by Tim Sullivan	114
Londa Schiebinger	Plants and Empire Reviewed by David Buisseret	116
Kees Zandvliet, ed.	The Dutch Encounter with Asia, 1600-1950 Reviewed by Cornelius Jaenen	117

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