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| Gary A. Davis | David Thompson and the Source of the Mississippi
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| Gabriel Hill | French Merchants and Missionaries on the Early Modern Slave Coast |
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| Amara L. Solari | The Relación Geográfica Map of Tabasco: Hybrid Cartography and Integrative Knowledge Systems in Sixteenth-century New Spain |
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Current Bibliography |
Kevin Mummey |
Recent Literature in Discovery History |
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Book Reviews |
Jeremy Atiyah
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The Great Land: How Western America Nearly Became a Russian Possession
Reviewed by Phyllis Whitman Hunter |
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David Attenborough; Anna Pavord; Sandra Knapp; and Tony Rice
| Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery; The Naming of Names: the Search for Order in the World of Plants; Plant Discoveries: A Botanist’s Voyage through Plant Exploration; and Voyages of Discovery: A Visual Celebration of Ten of the Greatest Natural History Expeditions
Reviewed by David Buisseret |
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| Stephanie Barczewski | Antarctic Destinies: Scott, Shackleton and the Changing Face of Heroism
Reviewed by Roger Balm |
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| Barbara Belyea | Dark Storm Moving West
Reviewed by Dee Longenbaugh |
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| Stephen R. Bown | Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The epic voyage of Captain George Vancouver
Reviewed by Roy Schreiber |
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| Captain Cook Memorial Museum, pub. | Smoking Coasts and Ice-Bound Seas: Cook’s Voyage to the Arctic. Catalogue to the Exhibition at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum
Reviewed by Ryan Jones |
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| Daniel Castro | Another Face of Empire: Bartholomé de Las Casas, Indigenous Rights, and Ecclesiastical Imperialism
Reviewed by Russell Magnaghi |
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| Paul D’Arcy | Peoples of the Pacific: the History of Oceania to 1870.
Reviewed by Rodrige Lévesque
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| John Dunmore | Where Fate Beckons: The Life of Jean-Françoice de La Pérouse
Reviewed by Roy Schreiber |
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| David Hackett Fischer | Champlain’s Dream
Reviewed by David Buisseret |
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| Richard Flint | No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada
Reviewed by Paul Mathias |
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| Vladimir Guerrero | The Anza Trail and the Settling of California
Reviewed by Paula Rebert |
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| John W. Hessler | The Naming of America: Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 World Map and the Cosmographiae Introductio
Reviewed by Ian Aebel |
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| Reginald Horsman | Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion
Reviewed by George Ritzlin |
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| Christian Jacob | The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches to Cartography throughout History. Translated by Tom Conley
Reviewed by Eric Tagliacozzo |
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| Richard Lansdown, ed.; Max Quanchi and John Robson | Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought; Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands
Reviewed by Jon Carlson |
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| John Sutton Lutz, ed. | Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact
Reviewed by Barry Gough |
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| Peter C. Mancall | Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan Obsession for an English America
Reviewed by Loren E. Pennington |
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| Peter Mancall, ed. | The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550-1624
Reviewed by Ron Schultz |
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| Alfred S. McLaren | Unknown Waters: A Firsthand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)
Reviewed by Ryan M. Seidemann |
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| Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo | Writing from the Edge of the World: Memoirs of Darién. Trans. G. F. Dille
Reviewed by Ronald H. Fritze |
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| Clare Pettitt | Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire
Reviewed by Laura Ammon |
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| Russell A. Potter | Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture
Reviewed by Anthony Brandt | |
| Tony Rees | Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World’s Longest Undefended Border Across the Western Plains
Reviewed by Paula Rebert | |
| Helen M. Razwadowski | Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea
Reviewed by Douglas T. Peck | |
| Helen C. Rountree, Wayne E. Clark, and Kent Montford | John Smith’s Chesapeake voyages 1607-1609
Reviewed by Robert Gordon | |
| Martin W. Sandler | Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen’s Ghost Ship
Reviewed by Ryan M. Seidemann | |
| Donald G. Shomette | Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders and Maritime Disasters along the Delmarva coast, 1632-2004
Reviewed by B. R. Burg | |
| G. Rex Smith, ed. and trans. | A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia: Ibn Al-Mujāwir’s Tārīkh Al-Mustabsir
Reviewed by Ronald H. Fritze | |
| Georg Wilhelm Steller | Steller’s History of Kamchatka: Collecte Information Concerning the History of Kamchatka…. Edited by Marvin W. Falk; trans. by Margritt Engel and Karen Willmore
Reviewed by Carol Urness | |
| Soren Thirslund | Viking Navigation
Reviewed by Arne B. Molander | |
| Ralph H. Vigil, Francis W. Kaye, and John Wunder, eds. | Spain and the Plains. Myths and Realities of Spanish Exploration and Settlement on the Great Plains
Reviewed by Dennis Reinhartz | |
| Nicolás Wey Gómez | The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies
Reviewed by Martin Torodash | |
| Pam Wheat-Stranahan | La Salle in Texas: a Teacher’s Guide for the Age of Discovery and Exploration
Reviewed by Gil Muller | |
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