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Terrae Incognitae
The Journal for the History of Discoveries
Contents of the current issue (Vol 38, 2006)
Contributors
Roy Bridges, president of the
Hakluyt Society, gave a version of this paper at the Williamsburg meeting of the Society.
Louis De Vorsey, longtime member and former president of the Society, presented this paper at the Williamsburg meeting.
Gregory Guzman is Caterpillar Professor of History at Bradley University.
J.R. Masson is a longtime member of the Society who lives in Mbabane, Swaziland.
James Newman is a professor in the Geography Department of Syracuse University.
Jeremy Pool is a software developer and map collector based in Cambridge, Massachusetts; he gave this paper at the Society’s Williamsburg meeting.
Alice Storey, of the Anthropology Department at the University of Auckland (New Zealand), was the winner of the Society’s essay contest for 2005.
Carol Urness was formerly Curator of the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota, having succeeded Jack Parker in that post.
Articles
| Carol Urness |
In Memory of Jack Parker |
1 |
| Alice Storey |
Layers of Discovery |
4 |
| Gregory G. Guzman |
The Vinland Map Controversy and the Discovery of a Second Version of The Tartar Relation |
19 |
| Jeremy Pool |
The Kimmen Line: Seventeenth-century Navigation
and the Continental Shelf |
26 |
| James Newman |
Discovering Gorillas: the Journey from Mythic to Real |
36 |
| Roy Bridges |
Images of Exploration in Africa: the Art of James Augustus Grant on the Nile Expedition of 1860-1863 |
55 |
| Louis De Vorsey |
The History of Discovery before the Bar |
75 |
Debates and Corrections
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J.R. Masson
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Comment on Gavin Menzies, 1421: The Year China Discovered the World |
83 |
Current Bibliography
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Mike Downs
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Recent Literature in Discovery History
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89 |
Book Reviews
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Tony Ballantine, ed.
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Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific
Reviewed by Richard Francaviglia
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98 |
| Antonio Barrera-Osorio |
Experiencing Nature: The Spanish-American Empire
and the early Scientific Revolution
Reviewed by David Buisseret |
100 |
Brandon K. Ruud, ed.
Carla Kelly, ed. |
Karl Bodmer’s North American Prints
On the Upper Missouri: The Journal of Rudolph Kurz, 1851-1852
Reviewed by Thomas Adam |
101 |
| Michael Brennan, ed. |
The Origins of the Grand Tour
Reviewed by Stanley Palmer |
102 |
| John Dee |
The Limits of the British Empire, ed. Ken Macmillan
Reviewed by Mike Downs |
103 |
| Felix Driver and Luciana
Martins, eds. |
Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire
Reviewed by Richard Francaviglia |
105 |
| Ralph Ehrenberg |
Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography
Reviewed by Barbara McCorkle |
106 |
| Richard Francaviglia |
Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin
Reviewed by Eric Wolf |
108 |
| James J. Holmberg, ed. |
Exploring with Lewis and Clark: the 1804 Journal
of Charles Floyd
Reviewed by Keith Burgess-Jackson |
109 |
| Raymonde Litalien and
Denis Vaugeois, eds. |
Champlain: The Birth of French America
Reviewed by David Buisseret |
110 |
| Marlene Deahl Merrill, ed. |
Seeing Yellowstone in 1871
Reviewed by Richard Francaviglia |
112 |
| Raymond Wood |
Prologue to Lewis and Clark: The Mackay and
Evans Expedition
Reviewed by Emily Troxell Jaycox |
113 |
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