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The Indies of the Setting Sun Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Richard Pflederer
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea During the Great Irish Famine Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Erin C. Barr
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Cinematic Journeys in Latin America: Geography Through the Lens of Exploration and Discovery Films Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ryan M. Seidemann
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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“Weather, People, Ship”: The Environment’s Impact on Cook’s First Voyage into the Pacific Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Valerio Massimo Donati
This research explores how the eighteenth-century Pacific environment shaped James Cook’s first voyage into the South Seas. Although a multitude of different investigations and numerous biographies...
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Jolliet and Marquette: a New History of the 1673 Expedition Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-12-03 David Buisseret
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Cartography and Climate in Exploration History: The Cases of Cook, La Salle, and the Admiral’s Map Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Richard Weiner
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Revisiting the “Admiral’s Map”: What Was It? And Who Was He? Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Gregory C. McIntosh
In the introduction to the appendix of modern maps by Martin Waldseemüller in the famous Strasbourg Ptolemy atlas of 1513 is a “puzzling sentence” that mentions a so-called “Admiral’s Map.” During ...
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Why La Salle Hung French Fortunes on a Western Branch: The Maps of Franquelin and Coronelli Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Richard Gross, Craig p. Howard
In 1684, La Salle proposed to establish a naval base for France on the doorstep of New Spain by sea. The site he chose was a fork in the Mississippi River 180 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. This wa...
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The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850 Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Benjamin B. Olshin
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Out of the Depths: A History of Shipwrecks Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Ryan M. Seidemann
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-12-03 David G. Schuster
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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CACICAS: The Indigenous Women leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825 Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Richard Francaviglia
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Gene Rhea Tucker
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Cold: Three Winters at the South Pole Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Ryan Barker
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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The Voyage of Sutil and Mexicana 1792: The Last Spanish Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-12-03 John Hairr
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 3, 2023)
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Rejoinder Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Leslie Trager
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Gene Rhea Tucker
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Marckalada: Quando l’America aveva un altro nome Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Benjamin B. Olshin
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Mapping Christopher Columbus: An Historical Geography of His Early Life to 1492 Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Lydia Towns
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Georges Cuvier’s Autopsy Report on Sara Baartman: A translation and commentary Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Marguerite Johnson, Alistair Rolls
In the historical research on Sara Baartman, best known as the “Hottentot Venus,” references to and discussions of her autopsy report by Georges Cuvier have been based on the original French text, “Extrait d’observations faites sur le cadavre d’une femme connue à Paris et à Londres sous le nom de Vénus Hottentotte,” published in 1817. For scholars, students and the general public interested in the
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The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Ryan Barker
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Recent Literature in the History of Exploration Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Noah Baumgartner, Richard Weiner
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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In Search of Monsters: Constructing the “Other” in Spanish Chronicles of the Americas and Early Russian Descriptions of Siberia Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Anastasia V. Kalyuta
This article compares two geographically distant and not directly related traditions of constructing the “other” and “otherness” in the Age of Discovery. It discusses the indigenous populations of the Americas and Siberia as portrayed by Spanish and Russian chroniclers of late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, examining common points and differences in the construction of “the other” and “otherness
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The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-18 David Buisseret
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Jesuit Cartography in the Rockies: Pierre-Jean De Smet and the Mapping of Native Landscapes of the American Northwest Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Mirela Altic
In this paper, we study Jesuit mapmaking in North America in the period after the restoration of the Order (1814), when the Jesuits regained their important place as missionaries and explorers, playing a significant role in the mapping and territorialization of the United States. In the period between the 1830s and the 1850s, Flemish Jesuit Pierre-Jean De Smet mapped the territories of the future states
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Monsters, Freaks, and Indians: Characters in Exploration Narratives Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Richard Weiner
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Ryan M. Seidemann
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Soviets in Space: Russia’s Cosmonauts and the Space Frontier Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Dennis Reinhartz
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Richard Francaviglia
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Nicholas Miller
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 2, 2023)
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Is Waldseemüller’s “North America” Really Columbus’s Cuba? Investigating a Map Mystery and Other Episodes in the History of Cartography and Exploration Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Richard Weiner
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 55, No. 1, 2023)
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The Untold Story of Oceanic Pilot Bartolomeu Borges who Guided Jean Ribault to Florida in 1562: Document Transcription and Translation, Accompanied by an Historical Introduction Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Nuno Vila-Santa
Until now, Portuguese pilot Bartolomeu Borges has remained an obscure figure. A new document—a lengthy letter sent by D. Alonso de Tovar, the Spanish ambassador in Portugal, to King Philip II in 1563—allows us to reconstruct Borges’s career. It suggests that it was Borges (not Jean Ribault) who guided the first French expedition to Florida in 1562, and provides an instructive sixteenth-century case
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Giovanni da Carignano: Fourteenth-Century Cartographic Innovator Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Alberto Quartapelle
Giovanni da Carignano’s chart is a testimony to the technical development attained by Genoese cartography at the beginning of the fourteenth century. Carignano’s original chart—which was destroyed during World War II—has not been the subject of specific analysis. This study highlights the innovation introduced by Carignano: a new relationship between image and text. In his work, Carignano included
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Depicting Cuba, Not North America: Solving the Enigma of America on Early Maps Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Donald L. McGuirk Jr, Gregory C. McIntosh
Abstract The most important map in American history is the famous Martin Waldseemüller world map of 1507. Despite this position, its geography contains an unanswered mystery: “What current-day geography is represented by its large northwest landmass?” It appears to mimic the coast of North America, and many contemporary authors agree. There is a problem with this conclusion. The coast of North America
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An Exotic Geographical Excursus: Chapters 273-378 of the Third Book of the Cronica Universalis by Galvaneus Flamma Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Federica Favero
Chapters 273–378 of the Cronica universalis by the Milanese Dominican Galvaneus Flamma consist of a long geographical excursus – a sign of the author’s interest in the subject. This excursus describes places and cities (real or – for us – imaginary) of Asia, India, Africa, Northern Europe, and even Markland. The study of the sources used in the composition of the excursus allows us to observe first
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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-11-06 D. K. Abbass
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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Asia through the Eyes of a Medieval Dominican Friar: Galvaneus Flamma’s Cumulative Reuse of Geographical Sources Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Giulia Greco
The third book of Galvaneus’s Cronica universalis contains an extensive geographical digression, which makes use of three kinds of sources: encyclopedic material, rather recent travel accounts (the ones by Marco Polo, Odoric of Pordenone, John of Pian di Carpine, John of Montecorvino and by a mysterious Dominican friar called Simon) and, most likely, oral testimonies. This article examines Galvaneus’s
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Ancient Explorers and Their Amazing Maps Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Gregory C. McIntosh
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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Two Cartographic Elements in Galvaneus Flamma’s Cronica Universalis Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Paolo Chiesa
In his Cronica universalis Galvaneus Flamma refers to two cartographic artifacts. The first is a diagram of the winds placed within a cosmological frame, which lists the names of the winds in accordance with both “scientific” tradition and seafaring experience; this diagram intertwines two sources of knowledge, as would be expected in a scholarly milieu receptive to the suggestion of geographical practice
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With Golden Visions Bright before Them, Trails to the Mining West, 1849-1852 Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Russell M. Magnaghi
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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Encounters in the New World: Jesuit cartography of the Americas Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-11-03 David Buisseret
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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How the West Was Drawn: Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Ryan Barker
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Ronald H. Fritze
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for Source of the Nile Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Dennis Reinhartz
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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Espinosa, el último capitán de la Vuelta al Mundo Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Luis A. Robles Macías
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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Beyond Fourteenth-Century Discussions of the Americas: New Geographical Revelations from Galvaneus Flamma’s Cronica Universalis Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Richard Weiner
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Charles Sullivan
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Gene Rhea Tucker
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Samuel Pyeatt Menefee
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia: From the Past to the Present Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Benjamin B. Olshin
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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Geography in Galvaneus Flamma’s Cronica Universalis Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Paolo Chiesa, Federica Favero, Giulia Greco
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2022)
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Mapping the Chicago Portage: Seventeenth-Century Explorations by Jolliet, Marquette, La Salle, and Joutel Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Richard Gross
On their return to Canada in 1673, Louis Jolliet’s group became the first Europeans documented to have passed from the Mississippi River watershed to the Great Lakes watershed via the Chicago Portage. This carrying place, between the Des Plaines and Chicago Rivers, would remain a politically and commercially important location during the fur trade era. A podcast by a group of Chicago historians, writers
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The Caverio Planisphere (c. 1506) Was Not Copied from the Cantino Planisphere (1502) Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Gregory C. Mcintosh
A close relationship has frequently been noted between the Caverio planisphere, generally dated c. 1506, and the Cantino planisphere, datable to October 1502. A careful examination of the placenames on the coast of Africa on the Caverio and Cantino planispheres and other early Portuguese and Portuguese-derived charts reveals the Caverio planisphere was probably not derived from the Cantino planisphere
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In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Charles Sullivan
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 2, 2022)
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A Business of State: Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Deepak Bhattasali
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 2, 2022)
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River Exploration in Cinema: Some Examples from South America Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Richard Francaviglia
Although the history of discoveries relies heavily upon the written word, this article urges that we take a closer look at how the medium of film depicts the process of geographical exploration and discovery. Using South America as an example, it focuses on one geographical feature, that continent’s remarkable river system. From the mid 20th century onward, rivers abounded in films depicting the continent’s
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Disputes in Exploration History: Creating the Caverio Planisphere, Mapping the Chicago Portage, and Exploring South American Rivers Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Richard Weiner
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 2, 2022)
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Recent Literature in Discovery History Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Scott Beamon, Richard Weiner
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 2, 2022)
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Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Charles Sullivan
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 2, 2022)
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The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas Terrae Incognitae Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Gene Rhea Tucker
Published in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (Vol. 54, No. 2, 2022)