Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00822884.2022.2138232
R. Barker
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00822884.2022.2138231
Benjamin B. Olshin
and Moklen ( sic ), two Austronesian groups of sea nomads; an ethno-archeological study of sea nomads in the Andaman Sea and their “cultural resilience”; an examination of how sea nomad culture can influence local cultures, looking at areas of East Timor; a linguistic and historical study of the Bajau diaspora; and a research piece – with a series of engaging maps – on the distribution of Bajau communities from the Philippines southward. A chapter by the linguist and anthropol-ogist Roger Blench will be of particular interest to readers of Terrae Incognitae
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00822884.2022.2138222
R. Weiner
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00822884.2022.2138228
D. Buisseret
{"title":"Encounters in the New World: Jesuit cartography of the Americas","authors":"D. Buisseret","doi":"10.1080/00822884.2022.2138228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2022.2138228","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40672,"journal":{"name":"Terrae Incognitae-The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries","volume":"54 1","pages":"295 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46414747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00822884.2022.2138224
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 of all that Friar Galvaneus used ancient and medieval encyclopedic sources on the one hand, and written accounts of travelers in the East on the other. It is also possible that the author of the Cronica has resorted to oral testimonies of travelers and sailors. What emerges from this study is a modern image of geography: not only because of the sources cited (the ancient authors are often mediated by medieval works) but also for the places mentioned.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00822884.2022.2138234
C. Sullivan
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00822884.2022.2138240
S. Menefee
comets, deluges, and so on. The book under review reuses Hapgood’s changing glaciation, fluctuating sea levels, and the lithosphere of Earth slipping about. No archeological sites, no relics, no documentation, no evidence whatsoever of the existence of this imagined and imaginary civilization, except the maps. The book is a large paperbound softcover, 8.5 × 0.5 × 11 inches. The first half of the book (1–93) is the text. The second half of the book (107 pages) are color print-outs of lowresolution images of old maps found on the Internet. Given the scale of the maps, the small size of the images, their inadequate resolution, and the unnecessarily wide margins of the pages further shrinking the images, they are of little-to-no value in supporting the thesis and arguments of the book. Their purpose is further obscured and usefulness obliterated by the absence of URLs to guide the interested reader to legible, zoomable images. Most of what the text of the book draws our attention to in these images is imperceptible, and the book has no index. Most of this malarkey was done earlier and, in some ways, better, by Charles H. Hapgood, the Godfather of the Fringe Historians of Cartography. This reviewer cannot recommend Ancient Explorers and Their Amazing Maps to our journal’s readership except, rather wholeheartedly, as yet another of the seemingly never-ending examples of pseudo-historians beginning their quest with a preconceived theory to prove, then seeking factoids to support it, stringing together coincidental but unconnected pieces of data, cavalierly obfuscating their case with both formal and informal fallacies, and ending with a flimsy edifice of fallacy, falsity, and sophistry.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00822884.2022.2097427
Deepak Bhattasali
{"title":"A Business of State: Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company","authors":"Deepak Bhattasali","doi":"10.1080/00822884.2022.2097427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00822884.2022.2097427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40672,"journal":{"name":"Terrae Incognitae-The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries","volume":"54 1","pages":"220 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47382766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00822884.2022.2099100
R. 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, and artists has promoted the assertion that a route south of Chicago, different from that recognized as one of only two National Historic Sites in Illinois, was actually the Chicago Portage Region used by such explorers as Louis Jolliet, Father Jacques Marquette, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, and Henri Joutel. However, the accounts of the seventeenth-century French travelers confirm the 1928 work that established the location of the portage region and served as the foundation for its designation by the National Park Service in 1952.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00822884.2022.2101279
R. Weiner
We are pleased to present a new issue of TI , one that we find interesting and informative that we hope our readers will enjoy. We are delighted to include two engaging, illuminating, and well-researched articles, both of which advance our understanding by challenging conventional wisdom on important topics in exploration history. Additionally, we are pleased to include a stimulating and informative film review essay on a fascinating subject: rivers. Finally, we are happy to include a “Recent Literature in Discovery History” piece with interesting new titles after a two-year break (or last “Recent Literature” piece appeared in August 2020 ). As is typical, the issue is rounded out with our “Reviews” section that examines recent works. What follows is a preview of the engaging pieces in this issue of TI , which are discussed in the order they appear.
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