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North American Exploration Volume 1: A New World Disclosed. Edited by JOHN LOGAN Ar.UN.
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, 538 pp. 72.00. ISBN 0 8032 1015 9
The recent quincentennials of both the Columbus voyages to the Americas and of John Cabot's journey to Newfoundland provide an appropriate timing for this three-volume study, which is a collaborative and comprehensive overview of North American exploration. John Allen clearly outlines his aims by stating that the volumes concentrate on three major aspects of the exploration process. The focus is, firstly, on the relationship between pre-existing and preconceived geographical lore and the evolution of the goals of exploration; secondly, upon the links between that lore, the new material obtained during explorations and the decisions explorers made; and finally, on the connections between...