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1.
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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Illustrations
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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
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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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
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
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3.
North American Exploration: A Continent Comprehended, Vol. 3
by John Logan Allen. 658 pgs.
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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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Selected Bibliography
Contributors
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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
Notes
Notes on the Contributors
Index
6.
English Discovery of America to 1585
by Franklin T. McCann. 246 pgs.
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The Author to the Reader
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
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
7.
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
Index
8.
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
Index
9.
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
10.
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
13.
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)
Grand Insulaire
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
Bibliography
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14.
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
Appendix
Notes
Bibliographical Note
Selected Bibliography
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