Terrae Incognitae

Contents of Vol 40, 2008

Contributors

Antony Adler, a native of St. John’s, Newfoundland, graduated from Carleton College with a BA in History and is presently a graduate student in Museology at the University of Washington in Seattle. The essay printed here won the Society’s 2007 annual prize competition.

Roger Balm is a member of the Geography faculty at Rutgers University; he is particularly interested in the intersections of visual art and geography.

Robert J. King is an independent researcher at the National Library of Australia with a special interest in the European expansion into the Pacific in the late 18th century.

Cameron McPherson Smith, who teaches in the Anthropology Department of Portland State University, is a professional writer, explorer, and archaeologist.

Gene Rhea Tucker is a student in the Transatlantic Doctoral History Program at the University of Texas at Arlington. His contribution to this volume won UTA’s 2008 Jenkins Garrett Award.

Chet Van Duzer is an independent scholar and, most recently, author of Floating Islands: a Global Bibliography (2004).

Articles
Robert J. King	William Bolts and the Austrian Origins of the Lapéouse Expedition	1
Chet Van Duzer	The History of the Azores as Insulae solis or Islands of the Sun in 16th-Century Cartography	29
Cameron McPherson Smith, et al.	On the Vessel Sailed by Bartholomé Ruiz in 1526: Characterization and Significance for the Pre-Columbian Archaeology of Northwestern South America	47
Antony Adler	Uncharted Seas: European-Polynesian Encounters in the Age of Discoveries	60
Gene Rhea Tucker	Coronelli’s Texan Mississippi: A Reinterpretation of the America Settentrionale of 1688	82
Roger Balm	Discovery as Autobiography: The Machu Picchu Case	102
Current Bibliography
Mike Downs	Recent Literature in Discovery History	114
Book Reviews
James R. Akerman, ed.	Cartographies of Travel and Navigation Reviewed by Ian J. Aebel	123
Catherine Armstrong	Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century. English representations in print and manuscript London Reviewed by Sarah Tyacke	124
Ian R. Bartky	One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity Reviewed by Robert W. Karrow, Jr.	125
Janet Bately and Anton Englert, eds.	Ohthere’s Voyages: A late 9th century account of voyages along the coasts of Norway and Denmark and its cultural context Reviewed by Arne Molander	127
Jens P. Bornholt	Cuatro Siglos de Expresiones Geográficas del Istmo Centromaericano/Four Centuries of Geographic Expressions of Central American Isthmus, 1500-1900 Reviewed by David Buisseret	128
Alexander H. Bolyanatz	Pacific Romanticism: Tahiti and the European Imagination Reviewed by Jon D. Carlson	129
Andrea de Porti	Explorers: The Most Exciting Voyages of Discovery—From the African Expeditions to the Lunar Landing Reviewed by Sanford H. Bederman	131
Evelyn Edson	The World Map, 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation Reviewed by Ian J. Aebel	132
Norman Etherington, ed.	Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa Reviewed by Karen Severud Cook	134
Jack D. Forbes	The American Discovery of Europe Reviewed by George C. Chalou	135
Patricia Galloway, ed.	The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and “Discovery” in the Southeast Reviewed by Dennis Reinhartz	137
Hendon M. Harris, Jr.	The Asiatic Fathers of America: Chinese Discovery & Colonization of Ancient America Reviewed by Ronald H. Fritze	138
Henry Harrisse	The discovery and cartographic development of Newfoundland and its environs, 1497-1500-1769. Translated by Aspi Balsara Reviewed by Alberta Auringer Wood	139
Nick Kanas	Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography Reviewed by Anna Freeman-Herlighy	140
Tony Koslow	The Silent Deep: The Discovery, Ecology and Conservation of the Deep Sea Reviewed by Ryan M. Seidemann	142
William de Lange	Pars Japonica: The First Dutch Expedition to Reach the Shores of Japan…. Reviewed by Barry Gough	143
Ronald S. Love	Maritime Exploration in the Age of Discovery Reviewed by Richard Pflederer	144
Carla Rahn Phillips	The Treasure of the San José: Death at Sea in the War of the Spanish Succession Reviewed by Ryan M. Seidemann	145
Poggio Bracciolini	De l’Inde: les voyages en Asie de Niccolò de’ Conti. De varietate fortunae, Livre IV. Translated and annotated by Michèle Guéret-Laferté Reviewed by Evelyn Edson	147
Dennis Reinhartz and Gerald D. Saxon, eds.	Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier Reviewed by Bruce P. Lenman	148
Brian W. Richardson	Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook’s Voyages Changed the World Reviewed by Arne B. Molander	150
L. H. Roper and b. Van Ruymbeke, eds.	Constructing early modern empires: proprietary ventures in the Atlantic World 1500-1750 Reviewed by Gayle K. Brunelle	151
E. Thomson Shields, Jr. and Charles R. Ewen, eds.	Searching for the Roanoke Colonies: An Interdisciplinary Collection Reviewed by Ian J. Aebel	153
Kate Teltscher	The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama, and the First British Expedition to Tibet Reviewed by Peter Severud	154
Benjamin Schmidt, ed.	The Discovery of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh, with Related Documents. Reviewed by Gayle K. Brunelle	155
Daniel Clayton	Islands of Truth: the Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island Reviewed by Barry Gough	156
Joan-Pau Rubiés	Travelers and Cosmographers: Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology Reviewed by Evelyn Edson	158
Germaine Warkentin, ed.	Canadian Exploration Literature Reviewed by Alberta Auringer Wood	160

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