The Cronica universalis written by the Milanese friar Galvaneus Flamma (it. Galvano Fiamma, d. c. 1345) contains an astonishing reference to a terra que dicitur Marckalada, situated west from Greenland. This land is recognizable as the Markland mentioned by some Icelandic sources and identified by scholars as some part of the Atlantic coast of North America. Galvaneus’s reference, probably derived

(2021). Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present. Terrae Incognitae. Ahead of Print.

Though a large number of Jesuit missionaries were active in New France, the number of preserved Jesuit maps for this area is rather small. However, the extensive geographic knowledge gathered by the Jesuits in their field observations and through their communication with the local nations was not lost. Thanks to Jesuit accounts, their geographic information would soon find its way to European cartographers

(2021). Disappointment river: finding and losing the Northwest passage. Terrae Incognitae. Ahead of Print.

The turn of the nineteenth century saw an increasing encroachment of Russian explorations into and around isolationist Japan, culminating with the capture and imprisonment of Russian naval captain Vasily Golovnin in 1811. These Russian attempts to “open” Japan were a threat to the established contact between Japan and Europe through the Dutch base in Dejima at Nagasaki, which gave the Dutch a monopoly

(2021). Exploration History and the Circulation of Knowledge. Terrae Incognitae. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe. Terrae Incognitae. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Women in American Cartography An Invisible Social History. Terrae Incognitae. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Elcano, viaje a la historia. Terrae Incognitae. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Cartography: The Ideal and Its History. Terrae Incognitae. Ahead of Print.

(2021). How the West was Drawn: Mapping, Indians and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West. Terrae Incognitae. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Exploration History and Identity Construction. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 1-4.

Abstract The rich fabric of place names knitting together the Americas weaves into a complex intercultural network of naming practices that span thousands of years as well as the globe. Indigenous, European, and settler communities each bestowed names upon places near and far whose meanings describe the place, its resources, or one’s experiences there. Names define the people who occupy a place. They

The illustrations in Philip Henry Gosse’s travelogue A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica, published in 1851, refuse both the picturesque modes and the natural history conventions of the period. This article explores both of these surprising formal qualities in depth by comparing these illustrations to those from Gosse’s other books and to other contemporaneous representations. One explanation for these

This article contends that “disguise” has been both overlooked in studies of travel writing and is more complex than current studies suppose. The performance of disguise raises important questions about trust—in the traveler, in the truth of what is narrated, and in the knowledge gained in exploration. The article examines examples of disguise in action: nineteenth-century exploration; woman travelers

(2021). Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 65-66.

(2021). Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 66-67.

(2021). Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 67-69.

(2021). Portrait of a Prospector: Edward Schieffelin’s Own Story. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 69-70.

(2021). Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology: Bounty’s Enigmatic Voyage. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 71-72.

(2021). Russian Colonization of Alaska: Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 1741-1799. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 72-73.

(2021). The Powell Expedition: New Discoveries About John Wesley Powell’s 1869 River Journey. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 73-74.

(2021). Texas Comanche Land Revisited. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 74-75.

(2021). Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 75-76.

(2021). El Camino Real de California: From Ancient Pathways to Modern Byways. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 77-78.

(2021). Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 78-79.

(2021). Les Oeuvres complètes de Champlain. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 79-80.

(2021). Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 80-81.

(2020). El abogado que dibujó el mundo: Martín Fernández de Enciso (1469-1533), una biografía apasionante. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 52, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CUBA, pp. 311-312.

(2020). Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 52, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CUBA, pp. 315-316.

(2020). To the Shores of Chile: The Journal and History of the Brouwer Expedition to Valdivia in 1643. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 52, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CUBA, pp. 319-320.

(2020). Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 52, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CUBA, pp. 320-321.

(2020). Granville Stapylton: Australia Felix 1836, Second in Command to Major Mitchell. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 52, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CUBA, pp. 314-314.

(2020). Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 52, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CUBA, pp. 316-317.

(2020). The Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 52, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CUBA, pp. 312-314.

(2020). Exploring Cuba: Cartographers, Educators, and Creeks & Spaniards. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 52, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CUBA, pp. 239-244.

This research investigates Creek Indian and Spanish encounters in Cuba, exploring the ways in which Natives looked beyond the Southeast for access to commodities following the Seven Years’ War. It uses gunpowder as a lens to examine how ongoing Creek–Spanish relations shaped gender dynamics, personal relationships, local-level politics, and cultural structures within the Confederacy while simultaneously

(2020). Potosí: The Silver City That Changed The World. Terrae Incognitae: Vol. 52, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CUBA, pp. 318-319.

In 1845, a unique teaching institution opened its doors in Havana, Cuba, to teach practical mechanics to young boys from the capital of the Spanish colony. This new teaching institution was called Escuela Mecánica although its name changed several times in the years that followed. The Mechanical School or Mechanical Institute was operated by the Society of Friends and quickly began to impact production

This article will survey a selection of maps associated with North American investment, colonization, and tourism in Cuba during the first 15 years following the Spanish American War; during this period, the United States intermittently occupied Cuba and contemplated annexing the country. Indeed, various railroad, steamship, and land companies, as well as journals such as the Cuba Review began to publish

In 1521 Henry VIII of England and Cardinal Wolsey requested the Worshipful Company of Drapers and other London guilds to assist in a westward voyage. After the Drapers’ repeated refusal to contribute the requested assistance the expedition was canceled. Previous scholarship points to the failure of this expedition as an indicator that Henry VIII was uninterested in exploration. However, by revisiting

We are pleased to present a very full issue that begins with a Special Anniversary section to mark milestones, which includes pieces to commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of Terrae Incognitae (TI...

The modern concept of “discovery” was the creation of the “second scientific revolution” in the decades to either side of 1800. The wholesale reconfiguration of knowledge practices emphasized the Romantic figure of the lone, daring adventurer who could interrogate the dynamic and ever-shifting world to discern new truths. “Discovery” was transformed from an act of investigation into an act laden with

The little-known map of the Yurumanguí Indians, created in the late colonial period, preserves information about a remote gold-mining region in New Granada. This essay represents the first attempt to link this map to the previously known and partially published Misioneros de Yurumanguí case file, which documents the discovery, attempted reducción, and ultimate erasure of the indigenous inhabitants

troversial subject of Humboldt’s views of the colonial governance in New Spain. Elsewhere, he considers in equally evenhanded fashion the politically charged subjects of Humboldt’s alleged Eurocentrism and of his responsibility for European or United States imperialism in Mexico. He also includes a careful evaluation of Humboldt’s attitude toward Aztec civilization. The second part of this three-part

The Society for the History of Discoveries celebrates its 60th anniversary this year (2020)! The Society, founded in 1960, is an international, United States-based, organization formed to stimulate...

Alexander von Humboldt’s and James Bryce’s travels in Latin America were separated by a century; nevertheless, both of them situated the region within a continental and worldwide framework. The two men emphasized the importance of geography as a factor that influenced history whenever they explained the development of peoples, both in their more “primitive” phases as well as in a more “advanced” state

In early 1860, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria arrived in Bahia on a short, but ultimately illuminating, visit to his cousin, Brazilian Emperor Pedro II. Published posthumously in English as Recollections of My Life (1868), this underused narrative recounts just eight days of a two-month journey. Despite the brevity of the trip, it nevertheless provides an insightful and oftentimes unexpected

New World,” “Dante and the New World,” and “Venetian Diplomacy, Spanish Gold and the New World in the Sixteenth Century.” In “Italy and the New World,” the author emphasizes the importance for the Spaniards of the earlier models of expansion offered by some Italian city-states, as well as some striking practical contributions such as the importance of Italian techniques of cartography, as well as the

volume – where Leffingwell fits into the global exploration efforts during the early twentieth century. Once past Leffingwell’s early years and into his arrival on his largely self-financed Alaskan expeditions, Collins’s book begins to suffer from flaws and tedium. Many of the flaws are problems that an astute editor should have identified. For example, there are repeated problems related to a lack

We are very pleased to publish this special issue entitled “Exploring Latin America,” which features articles on travelogues by German explorer-scientist Alexander von Humboldt, the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and Englishman traveleracademic James Bryce. Since Humboldt visited the region at the onset of the nineteenth century, Maximilian approximately a half century later, and Bryce at the

James Bryce is recognized as a traveler, historian, lawyer, politician, diplomat, and International Relations scholar, who led to an improvement in British-American relations, the understanding of modern democracies, and the establishment of the League of Nations. However, until recent times his portrayal of Latin America has been overlooked by historiography. This article aims to explore his analysis

The political and historiographical discourses of the British intellectual and traveler James Bryce (1838–1922) have been characterized as representative of the late-Victorian liberal thought. Following this interpretative framework, scholarship has focused on the analysis of the key principles of Bryce’s liberal ideology, such as “self-government”, “democracy” and “international law.” This article

connected network as she argues that the voyage was a transnational expedition. Dalton shows that the concept and planning stages of the voyage were heavily influenced, if not directed, by English merchants and that the main financial backers of the voyage were English and Genoese. So, while Cabot may have been sailing under the Spanish flag, his loyalties were with the venture itself and likely those

American missions does not include a locator inset map, so most readers will need to consult another map of that continent to place them in context. Even more surprising – in light of the wealth of information about missions in both continents – is the fact that all of the book’s twenty-four photographs of missions are of those in Mexico; none in from South America. Given the iconography mentioned

In 1740, Commodore George Anson’s expedition to the Pacific once more demonstrated the chronic fragility of Spanish defenses in the entire region. The success and impunity enjoyed by the British privateer illustrated the need for the Spanish crown to consider serious defense reform. The main reforms focused on the improvement of the Armada Real and the construction of fortifications. This article seeks

Following the return to Spain of the remnant from the Magellan-Elcano voyage around the world (1519–22), various other Spanish voyages attempted to find the elusive return route eastward across the Pacific. Among those who proposed to search for that route was Pedro de Alvarado, a veteran of the conquests of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. In 1526, Alvarado visited the court of the young king of Spain

members and cross-referencing their related information to expand our grasp of the expedition. Thus far, 387 members of approximately 2800 have been addressed, and many of them, mostly unknown male and female Nahuatl-speaking indigenous allies, servants, and slaves from New Spain who made up the expedition and helped to keep it going with the minority of European leadership, may never be found out

inflated sense of ceremony and importance; this strategic nostalgia applied to the overall exhibition as well. The songs were a “musical manifestation of imperial expansion” (p. 251) that was anachronistic almost from themoment they debuted and now offer an instructive lesson about the perception of empire by the 1920s. The chronological organization of the chapters leaves no doubt that exhibition

While collaboration between imperial governments and their agents/representatives is essential to exploration and expansion, the partnership is complicated and fraught with tension. One area of tension is the competing interests of imperial governments and their agents, a dynamic, in the Spanish case, that can be traced back to the Reconquista, when the Spanish crown granted adelantados extensive powers