Terrae Incognitae

Contents of 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
J.R. Masson	Comment on Gavin Menzies, 1421: The Year China Discovered the World	83
Current Bibliography
Mike Downs	Recent Literature in Discovery History	89
Book Reviews
Tony Ballantine, ed.	Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific Reviewed by Richard Francaviglia	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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