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North American Exploration: A New World Disclosed, Vol. 1
by John Logan Allen. 540 pgs.

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Imagining the Indies

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Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction to Volume 1

1 / Pre-Columbian Discoveries and Exploration of North America

2: Native North Americans' Cosmological Ideas and Geographical Awareness: Their Representation and Influence on Early European Exploration and Geographical Knowledge

3: The Columbian Voyages

4: Early Spanish Exploration: The Caribbean, Central America, and the Gulf of Mexico

5: Hacia El Norte! The Spanish Entrada into North America, 1513-1549

6: The Northwest Passage in Theory and Practice

7: A Continent Revealed: Assimilation of the Shape and Possibilities of North America's East Coast, 1524-1610

8: The Early Exploration of the Pacific Coast

Notes

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Contributors

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North American Exploration: A Continent Defined, Vol. 2
by John Logan Allen. 476 pgs.

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9 / Spanish Penetrations to the North of New Spain

10 / Early French Exploration in the North American Interior

11 / French Exploration in North America, 1700-1800

12 / British Exploration of Rupert's Land

13 British Exploration of the United States Interior

14 / The Exploration of the Pacific Coast

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North American Exploration: A Continent Comprehended, Vol. 3
by John Logan Allen. 658 pgs.

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Editorial Board

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Introduction to Volume 3 a Continent Comprehended

15 / Exploring the American West in the Age of Jefferson

16 /: The Canadian Fur Trade and the Exploration of Western North America, 1797-1851

17 / the Invention of the American West: Fur Trade Exploration, 1821-1839

18 / Nature's Gullivers and Crusoes: the Scientific Exploration of British North America, 1800-1870

19 / Nineteenth-Century Exploration of the Arctic

20 / the Military Explorers of the American West, 1838-1860

21 / the Government Explorer in Canada, 1870-1914

22 Scientific Exploration of the American West, 1865-1900

23 / a "Capacity for Wonder": the Meanings of Exploration

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4.

Essays on the History of North American Discovery and Exploration
by Olive Patricia Dickason, Robert H. Fuson, William H. Goetzmann, Cornelius J. Jaenen, Elizabeth A. H. John, David B. Quinn. 148 pgs.

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Colonies in the Beginning: Examples from North America

The John Cabot Mystique

Old World Law, New World Peoples, and Concepts of Sovereignty

Seeing and Believing: The Explorer and the Visualization of Place
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American Beginnings: Exploration, Culture, and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega
by Emerson W. Baker, Edwin A. Churchill, Richard D'Abate, Kristine L. Jones, Victor A. Konrad, Harald E. L. Prins. 392 pgs.

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General Introduction

Part One: There Appeared a New Land European Discovery, Exploration, and Cartography

Introduction

Chapter One: The Indrawing Sea Imagination and Experience in the Search for the Northwest Passage, 1497-1632

Chapter Two: The Early Cartography of Maine in the Setting of Early European Exploration of New England and the Maritimes

Chapter Three: On the Meaning of a Name "Norumbega" and the Representation of North America

Part Two: Wenooch; Or, Who Are These Strangers? Native Americans and the European Encounter

Introduction

Chapter Four: Children of Gluskap Wabanaki Indians on the Eve of the European Invasion

Chapter Five: Mapping Otherness Myth and the Study of Cultural Encounter

Chapter Six: Trade and Alliances in the Contact Period

Chapter Seven: The Exploration of Norumbega Native Perspectives

Part Three: Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing European Colonization and Settlement

Introduction

Chapter Eight: Political Definitions Creating Maine and Acadia

Chapter Nine: Wee Tooke Great Store of Cod-Fish Fishing Ships and First Settlements on the Coast of New England, 1600-1630

Chapter Ten: Fort Pentagoet and Castin's Habitation French Ventures in Acadian Maine

Chapter Eleven: Mid-Seventeenth-Century Maine a World on the Edge

Chapter Twelve: The World of Thomas Gorges Life in the Province of Maine in the 1640s

Part Four: Victims of a Map

Introduction

Chapter Thirteen: New England Cartography and the Native Americans

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Notes on the Contributors

Index
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English Discovery of America to 1585
by Franklin T. McCann. 246 pgs.

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Chapter I: The Static Three-Part Earth in England Before the Discovery of America

Chapter II: The Changing Three-Part Earth Brought To England Before the Discovery of America

Chapter III: America, the Fourth Part of the Earth

Chapter IV: English Voyages to America, 1509-1547

Chapter V: America in Imaginative English Literature Before 1550

Chapter VI: Expansion of English Interest in Voyaging, 1547-1558

Chapter VII: Eden's America

Chapter VIII: Elizabethan Discovery of America to 1585

Chapter IX: Medieval Concepts of the Earth in A Renaissance World

Chapter X: The Reappearance of America In Imaginative English Literature

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Spanish Exploration in the Southwest, 1542-1706
by Herbert Eugene Bolton. 492 pgs.

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I. Exploration and Plans For The Settlement of California 1542-1620

1. The Cabrillo-Ferrelo Expedition

California: 2. The Vizcaino Expedition, 1602-1603

7. The Arrival at and Departure from te Bay of Madalena and the Voyage to the Port of San Bartolome

8. The Departure from the Port of San Bartolomue and the Arrival at the Island of Serros.: The Departure from the Port of San Bartolomé and the Arrival At the Island of Serros.

9. The Departure from the Island of Serros, and the Arrival at the Island of San Geruonimo.

1. The Rodridguez Expedition, 1581

II. Exploration and Settlement in New Mexico and in Adjau-Cent Regions, 1581-1605

New Mexico: 2. The Espejo Expedition, 1582-1583

New Mexico: 3. The Onate Expeditions and the Founding of the Province of New Mexico, 1596-1605

Letter Written by Don Juan De Onate from New Mexico, 1599

III. Exploration and Settlement in Texas, 1675-1690

1: The Bosquie-Larios Expedition, 1675

Texas: 2. The Mendoza-Lopez Expedition to the Jumanos, 1683-1684

Texas: 3. The De Leon-Massanet Expeditions and the Founding of Texas, 1689-1690

IV. Arizona: The Jesuits in Pimeria Alta (Southern Arizona and Northern Sonorau) 1687-1710

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New France and New England
by John Fiske. 388 pgs.

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List of Illustrations

I: From Cartier to Champlain

II: The Beginnings of Quebec

III: The Lords of Acadia.--Later History of Champlain

IV: Wilderness and Empire

V: Witchcraft in Salem Village

VI: The Great Awakening

VII: Norridgewock and Louisburg

VIII: Beginnings of the Great War

IX: Crown Point, Fort William Henry, and Ticonderoga

X: Louisburg, Fort Duquesne, And the Fall of Quebec

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The Exploration of Western America, 1800-1850: An Historical Geography
by E. W. Gilbert. 233 pgs.

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Chapter I The Early Exploration Of Western America

Historical Introduction

Chapter II The Purchase of Louisiana

Part I A Geographical Analysis Of Western America

Chapter III The Physical Geography Of the Region

Chapter IV The Climate of the Region

Chapter V The Natural Drainage Of The Region

Chapter VI The Natural Vegetation Of The Region

Chapter VII The Animals of the Region

Chapter VIII The Indian Inhabitants Of the Region

Part Ii The Exploration of Western America, 1800-1850

Chapter IX The Discovery of a Northern Trans-Continental Route

Chapter X The Discovery of a Central Transcontinental Route

Chapter XI The Discovery of Southern Trans- Continental Routes

Chapter XII The Discovery of the Great Basin And the Routes Over The Sierra Nevada, 1832-1853

Chapter XIII The Representation of Western America on Maps Published Between 1800 and 1850

Chapter XIV Conclusion

Index
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Into the Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives of the American West, 1500-1805
by Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maguire, Peter Wild. 398 pgs.

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The Explorers: Great Adventurers Tell Their Own Stories of Discovery
by G. R. Crone. 361 pgs.

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Asia

William of Rubrouck Fl. 1255

Ibn Battuta A.D. 1304-1377

Anthony Jenkinson Died 1611

John Saris Died 1646

Alexander Von Humboldt 1769-1859

É;Variste Régis Huc 1813-1860

Isabella Bird Bishop 1831-1904

Charles Montagu Doughty 1843-1926

Marc Aurel Stein 1862-1943

Wilfred Thesiger 1910-

Edmund Hillary 1919-

Africa

Hanno Fl. 500 B.C.

Alvaro Fernandes Fl. 1446

James Bruce 1730-1794

David Livingstone 1813-1873

Heinrich Barth 1821-1865

Richard Francis Burton 1821-1900

Samuel White Baker 1821-1893

Gerhard Rohlfs 1832-1896

Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904

Louis-Gustave Binger 1856-1937

Joseph Thomson 1858-1895

Paul François Xavier Flatters 1832-1881

Mary Kingsley 1862-1900

Leif Ericson C. 1002

Christopher Columbus 1451-1506

Hernando Cortés 1485-1547

Alvar Nuñez Cabeza Da Vaca 1507-1559

Samuel De Champlain 1567-1635

Jacques Marquette 1637-1675

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 1774-1809 1770-1838

John Charles Frémont 1813-1890

John Wesley Powell 1834-1902

Oscar Rohn 1870-1923

South America

Amerigo Vespucci 1451-1512

Francisco Pizarro 1476-1541

Francisco Orellana 1500-1550

Alexander Von Humboldt 1769-1859

Robert Hermann Schomburgk 1804-1865

Australia and the Pacific

Ferdinand Magellan 1470-1521

William Dampier 1652-1715

James Cook 1728-1779

Joseph Banks 1743-1820

Charles Sturt 1795-1869

John M'Doual Stuart 1815-1866

Jack Gordon Hides 1906-1936

Donald Thomson 1901-

Polar, Regions

John Davis 1550-1605

Willem Barentszoon Died 1597

James Clark Ross 1800-1862

Frederick Schwatka 1849-1892

Fridtjof Nansen 1861-1930

Carsten Borchgrevink 1864-1934

Robert Falcon Scott 1868-1912

Ernest Henry Shackleton 1874-1922

Lauge Koch 1892-

Augustine Courtauld 1904-1959
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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
by Cyclone Covey. 160 pgs.

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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to cross the North American continent. This remarkable book is his odyssey, first written in 1542 as an official report to the king of Spain under the title La Relacion.

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Sacred Caesarian Catholic Majesty:

Chapter 1:: The Sailing of the Armada

Chapter 3:: Our Landing in Florida

Chapter 4:: Our Penetration of the Country

Chapter 6:: The Entry into Apalachen

Chapter 8: Adventures in and Out of Apalachen

Chapter 9:: The Ominous Note at Aut

Chapter 11:: The Building of the Barges and Our Departure from the Bay

Chapter 12:: The First Month at Sea After Departing the Bay of Horses

Chapter 13:: Treachery in the Night Ashore

Chapter 14:: The Disappearance of the Greek

Chapter 15:: The Indian Assault and The Arrival at a Great River

Chapter 16:: The Splitting-Up of the Flotilla

Chapter 17:: A Sinking and a Landing

Chapter 19:: The Indians' Hospitality Before And After a New Calamity

Chapter 20:: News of Other Christians

Chapter 21:: Why We Named the Island "Doom"

Chapter 28:: Figueroa's Further Story of What Had Happened to the Others

Chapter 30:: The Life of the Mariames and Yguaces

Chapter 31:: The Tribal Split And News of the Remaining Barge

Chapter 32:: Our Escape

Chapter 34:: More Cures

Chapter 35:: The Story of the Visitation of Mr. Badthing

Chapter 36:: Our Life Among the Avavares and Arbadaos

Chapter 37:: Our Pushing On

Chapter 38:: Customs of That Region

Chapter 39:: Indian Warfare

Chapter 40:: An Enumeration of the Nations and Tongues

Chapter 41:: A Smoke; a Tea; Women and Eunuchs

Chapter 43:: A Strange New Development

Chapter 45:: My Famous Operation in The Mountain Country

Chapter 46:: The Severe Month's March to the Great River

Chapter 48:: The Long Swing-Around

Chapter 49:: The Town of Hearts

Chapter 50:: The Buckle and the Horseshoe Nail

Chapter 52:: The Falling-Out with Our Countrymen

Chapter 53:: The Parley at Culiacán

Chapter 55:: Arrival in Mexico City

Chapter 57:: What Became of the Others Who Went to the Indies

Afterword

Epilogue

Index
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Andre Thevet's North America: A Sixteenth-Century View
by Roger Schlesinger, Arthur P. Stabler, Andrae Thevet. 296 pgs.

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Part 1 Canada

Singularitez De La France Antarctique

Cosmographie Universelle (book 23)

Grand Insulaire

Description De Plusieurs Isles

Part 2 Florida

Singularitez De La France Antarctique

Cosmographie Universelle (book 23)

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Part 3 Mexico

Singularitez De La France Antarctique

Cosmographie Universelle (book 22)

Grand Insulaire

Part 4 Original French Text (canadian Section)

Grand Insulaire Original French Text (canadian Section)

Description De Plusieurs Isles

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The Boundary Hunters: Surveying the 141st Meridian and the Alaska Panhandle
by Lewis Green. 216 pgs.

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Foreword

1: Britain and Russia Establish Their Boundary (1825-67)

2: Canada and United States Mark the 141st Meridian (1869-96)

3: Staking a Claim to the Panhandle (1876-96)

4: The Klondike Rush and Temporary Boundaries (1896-1903)

5: Forced Settlement: The Alaska Boundary Tribunal (1903)

6: Marking the Panhandle Boundary (1904-1920)

7: The 141st Meridian: A Single Straight Line (1906-13)

Afterword

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Notes

Bibliographical Note

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