[Cartographic encounters: perspectives on native American mapmaking & map use]

CARTOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS: PERSPECTIVES ON NATIVE AMERICAN MAPMAKING AND MAP USE / G. Malcolm Lewis, ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. xx, 318 pp. ISBN 0-226-47694-4 (cloth). US$60.00.

Cartographic Encounters is a ground-breaking exploration of Aboriginal people's maps and mapmaking from the time of earliest contact with Europeans onward. The book is superbly researched, clearly written, well illustrated, thoroughly documented, and, not incidentally, beautifully produced. The information and insights provided by the editor and principal author, G. Malcolm Lewis, a geographer, and the seven contributing authors from disciplines ranging from literature to art, anthropology, geography, and history, are such that this book now stands as the most informed and informative book on the topic.

The book is an outgrowth of lectures by Lewis and three colleagues as the eleventh in the series of Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography, offered by...