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Recent Literature in Discovery History

Barbara B. McCorkle
Pages 71-82 | Published online: 19 Jul 2013

General and Unclassified

  • ATHAPPILLY, ANDREW. An Indian Prototype for Prester John. Terrae Incognitae, 10 (1978): 15–23.
  • BECK, EMILY MORISON, ed. Sailor Historian: The Best of Samuel Eliot Morison. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. 431p. $15.00. ISBN: 0395254442.
  • BECK, HANNO. Weiner Forschungen zur Geschichte der Geographie und der Reisen. Geographische Zeitschrift, 65( Heft 1, 1977): 49–52.
  • BERKHOFER, ROBERT. The White Man’s Indian. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1978. 259p. $15.00. ISBN: 0394484851.
  • COOK, HAROLD J. Ancient Wisdom, the Golden Age, and Atlantis: The New World in Sixteenth-Century Cosmography. Terrae Incognitae, 10 (1978): 25–43.
  • GORDON, AMY GLASSNER. Mapping La Popelinière’s Thought: Some Geographical Dimensions. Terrae Incognitae, 9 (1977): 60–74.
  • HAUPTMAN, LAURENCE M. Westward the Course of Empire: Geography Schoolbooks and Manifest Destiny, 1783–1893. Historian, 40( May 1978): 423–437.
  • HUFFINES, MARION LOIS. The Original Manuscript of Ulrich Schmidel: German Conquistador and Chronicler. Americas, 34( October 1977): 202–206.
  • KELLENBENZ, HERMANN. The Role of the Great Upper German Families in Financing the Discoveries. Terrae Incognitae, 10 (1978): 45–59.
  • KIRÁLY, BÉLA K., and GEORGE BARANY, eds. East Central European Perceptions of Early America. Lisse: Peter De Ridder Press; distributed by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1977. 144p. $7.75. LC: 77-369620.
  • MORISON, SAMUEL ELIOT. The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. 752p. $17.95. ISBN: 0195023145.
  • QUINN, DAVID BEERS. North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements: The Norse Voyages to 1612. New York: Harper and Row, 1977. 612p. $15.00. ISBN: 0060134585.
  • SANDERS, RONALD. Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978. 443p. $15.00. ISBN: 0316770086.

Archives and Resources

  • COUTTS, BRIAN E. An Inventory of Sources in the Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Louisiana State University, for the History of Spanish Louisiana and Spanish West Florida. Louisiana History, 19( Spring 1978): 213–250.
  • HANKE, LEWIS and CELSO RODRIGUEZ. Guiá de las Fuentes en el Archivo General de Indias para el Estudio de la Administraciôn Virreinal Española en México y en el Perú, 1535–1700. Cologne: Bohlau Verlag, 1977. 3v. ISBN: 3412051764.
  • KELLY, CHRISTINE, comp. The RGS Archives. Part V: Australasia, Europe, Islands, Maps and Physical Geography, Miscellaneous. Geographical Journal, 143( July 1977): 266–278.
  • KNIGHT, R.J.B., ed. Guide to Manuscripts in the National Maritime Museum. Vol. I: The Personal Collections. London: Mansell, 1977. 234p. £10.00. ISBN: 0720107148.
  • MOODIE, D.W. The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Archives: A Resource for Historical Geography. Canadian Geographer, 21( Fall 1977): 268–274.
  • QUINN, DAVID B. A Chance Rag-Bag of Survivals: The Archives of Early American History. Library Journal, 103( November 15, 1978): 2305–2309.
  • TELKAMP, GERARD J. Current Annotated Bibliography of Dutch Expansion Studies. Itinerario, (no. 3–4, 1977).

Biography

  • DAWSON, GEORGINA. Edward Wright, Mathematician and Hydrographer. American Neptune, 37( April 1977): 174–178.
  • EGAN, FEROL. Frémont: Explorer for a Restless Nation. Garden City: Doubleday, 1977. 582p. $14.95. ISBN: 0385017758.
  • GARBER, D.W. Jedidiah Strong Smith—Fur Trader from Ohio: A Postscript. Pacific Historian, 22( Spring 1978): 9–25.
  • HORWOOD, HAROLD A. Bartlett: The Great Canadian Explorer. Garden City: Doubleday, 1977. 194p. $7.95. ISBN: 0385099843.
  • HUXLEY, ELSPETH. Scott of the Antarctic. New York: Atheneum, 1978. 303p. $12.95. ISBN: 0689108613.
  • LE MOYNE DE MORGUES, JACQUES. The Work of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, a Huguenot Artist in France, Florida, and England. Ed. by Paul Hulton. London: British Museum Publications, 1977. 2v. £65.00.
  • MIRSKY, JEANNETTE. Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological Explorer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. 585p. $17.50. ISBN: 0226531767.
  • POPE, DUDLEY. The Buccaneer King: The Biography of the Notorious Sir Henry Morgan, 1635–1688. New York: Dodd Mead, 1978. 379p. $11.95. ISBN: 0396075665.
  • RAYFIELD, DONALD. The Dream of Lhasa: The Life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839–88), Explorer of Central Asia. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1977. 221p. $13.50. ISBN: 0821403699.
  • SEARIGHT, SARAH. Stein, the Central Asian Nomad. Geographical Magazine, 50( September 1978): 816–819.
  • STAMP, TOM and CORDELIA. James Cook, Maritime Scientist. Whitby: Caedmon of Whitby Press, 1978. 159p. £3.95. ISBN: 0905355040.
  • STEFFEN, JEROME O. William Clark: Jeffersonian Man on the Frontier. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. 196p. $8.95. ISBN: 0806113731.
  • TAYLOR, P.A.M. Samuel Eliot Morison: Historian. Journal of American Studies, 11 ( April 1977): 13–26.
  • URE, JOHN. Prince Henry the Navigator. London: Constable, 1977. 207p. £4.95. ISBN: 0094612404.
  • WOOD, RAYMOND F. Jedidiah Smith, a Protestant in Catholic California. Pacific Historian, 21( Fall 1977): 268–279.

Cartography

  • CAMPBELL, TONY. Yesterday’s Maps: Manipulations. Geographical Magazine, 49( June 1977): 587.
  • CREEK, ALMA BURNER, comp. Maps of the Genesee Valley and Finger-Lakes Region, 1776–1950. Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester Regional Research Library Council, 1977. 145p. $10.00.
  • DILKIE, O.A.W. and MARGARET S. First Map to Mark the New World. Geographical Magazine, 49( September 1977): 776–780.
  • EADE, J.C. The Accuracy of Vincenzo Coronelli’s Celestial Globe. Isis, 68( September 1977): 437–440.
  • EHRENBERG, RALPH E. Taking the Measure of the Land. Prologue, 9( Fall 1977): 129–150.
  • FOX, DIANA J. Iowa and Early Maps. Palimpsest, 59( May/June 1978): 77–87.
  • GUTHORN, PETER J. Military Mapping During the American Revolution. Map Collector, 1( March 1978): 8–20.
  • GUTHORN, PETER J. Revolutionary War Mapmakers. Prologue, 9( Fall 1977): 171–177.
  • HARLEY, J.B. Atlas Maker for Independent America. Geographical Magazine, 49( September 1977): 766–771.
  • HSU, MEI-LING. The Han Maps and Early Chinese Cartography. Annals of the Association of Amerian Geographers, 68( March 1978): 45–60.
  • John Henry County Map of Virginia. Introd. by Louis B. Wright. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977. 14p., 4 sheets. $25.00. (Facsimile of copy in the Library of Congress).
  • KEELER, MARY FREAR. The Boazio Maps of 1585–86. Terrae Incognitae, 10 (1978): 71–80.
  • KELLEY, JAMES E., JR. The Oldest Portolan Chart in the New World. Terrae Incognitae, 9 (1977): 22–48.
  • The Map Collector. Ronald Vere Tooley, ed. Tring, Eng.: vol. 1, no. 1, December 1977–.
  • MARTIN, G. “Nova Orbis Terrarum. . .” Re-examined. Cartography, 10( July 1977): 103–109.
  • MOODIE, D.W. and BARRY KAYE. The Ac Ku Mok Ki Map. Beaver, 307( Spring 1977): 4–15.
  • NEWTON, ROBERT R. The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. 411p. $22.50. ISBN: 0801819003.
  • NORWICH, I. The Dudley Maps of Southern Africa from his Atlas Arcano del Mare. Africana Notes and News, 22( March 1977): 195–200.
  • PETCHENIK, BARBARA BARTZ. Cartography and the Making of an Historical Atlas. American Cartographer, 4( April 1977): 11–28.
  • RISTOW, WALTER W. The Hauslab-Liechtenstein Map Collection. Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 35( April 1978): 108–138.
  • RISTOW, WALTER W. and R.A. SKELTON. Nautical Charts on Vellum in the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1977. 30p. $6.00. ISBN: 0844401811.
  • RISTOW, WALTER W. Robert Mills’s Atlas of South Carolina. Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 34( January 1977): 52–66.
  • SCHILDER, GUNTER. The World Map of 1624 by Willem Jansz Blaeu and Jodocus Hondius. Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1977. 17p., 20 leaves. $70.00.
  • SCHUBRING, KLAUS. Der Jesuitenmissionar Samuel Fritz und eine neue “Ausgabe” seiner Aufzeichnungen. Zeitschrift Kirchengeschichte, 87 ( 2–3, 1976): 328–339.
  • THROWER, NORMAN J.W., ed., The Compleat Plattmaker: Essays on Chart, Map, and Globe Making in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. 241p. $14.95. ISBN: 05200035224.
  • TOOLEY, RONALD VERE. The Strait That Never Was. Map Collector, 1( March 1978): 2–7.

European Expansion

  • BOXER, CHARLES R. The Church Militant and Iberian Expansion, 1440–1770. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. 148p. $9.50. ISBN: 0801820421.
  • DIFFIE, BAILEY W. and GEORGE D. WINIUS. Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415–1580. (Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion: vol. 1.) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977. 533p. $25.00. ISBN: 0816607826.
  • MULDOON, JAMES. The Expansion of Europe: The First Phase. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977. 212p. $16.00. ISBN: 0812277295.
  • PARKER, JOHN. The World for a Marketplace. Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1978. 253p. $15.00. ISBN: 0960179801.
  • RUSSELL-WOOD, A.J.R. Iberian Expansion and the Issue of Black Slavery: Changing Portuguese Attitudes, 1440–1770. American Historical Review, 83( February 1978): 16–42.
  • WESSELING, H.L. Essays on European Expansion and Reactions in Asia and Africa. Leyden: Leyden Univesity Press, 1977.

Literary Accounts

  • FARKAS, ALEXANDER BÖLÖNI. Journey in North America. Translated and edited by Theodore and Helen B. Schoenman. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, number 120.) Philadelphia: The Society, 1977. 228p. $7.00. ISBN: 0871691205.
  • FARKAS, ALEXANDER BÖLÖNI. Translated by Arpad Kadarkay. Santa Barbara: Clio Press, 1978. ISBN: 0874362709.
  • GALINSKY, HANS. Exploring the “Exploration Report” and Its Image of the Overseas World: Spanish, French, and English Variants of a Common Form Type in Early American Literature. Early American Literature, 12( Spring 1977): 5–24.
  • HAHN, THOMAS. Indians East and West: Primitivism and Savagery in English Discovery Narratives of the Sixteenth Century. Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 8( Spring 1978): 77–114.
  • LOUIS-PHILIPPE, KING OF THE FRENCH. Diary of My Travels in America. Translation of Journal de Mon Voyage d’Amerique. Translated by Stephen Becker, preface by Henry Steele Commager. New York: Delacorte Press, 1977. 202p. $7.95. ISBN: 0440018447.
  • SIMPSON, MARCUS B. The Rev. John Clayton’s Letters to the Royal Society of London, 1693–1694. North Carolina History Review, 54( January 1977): 1–16.

Maritime Exploration and Trade

  • ALBUQUERQUE, LUIS DE. Casos de Expansão Portuguesa VII: Carga e Custo de Duas Armadas da India nos Meados do Século XVI. Vertice, 37( January/February 1977): 11–25.
  • ANDREWS, KENNETH R. The Spanish Caribbean: Trade and Plunder, 1530–1630. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. 267p. $17.50. ISBN: 0300021976.
  • BAUGH, DANIEL A. The Sea-Trial of John Harrison’s Chronometer, 1736. Mariner’s Mirror, 64( August 1978): 235–240.
  • BOUCHON, GENEVIEVE, ed. Navires et cargaisons Retour de Finde en 1518. Paris: Société d’Histoire de l’Orient, 1977. 63p. ISBN: 2902558031.
  • CHAPIN, SEYMOUR L. Latitude and the Longitude: A Little Known London Voyage of 1763. Royal Society of London. Notes and Records, 32( March 1978): 165–180.
  • COTTER, CHARLES H. Early Dead Reckoning Navigation. Journal of Navigation, 31( January 1978): 20–27.
  • COTTER, CHARLES H. The Royal Society and the Deviation of the Compass. Royal Society of London. Notes and Records, 31( January 1977): 297–309.
  • CRAMER, S.D., JR. The Military Chartmaker: Two Centuries of Support to Navigation. Navigation, 23( Winter 1976/1977): 334–338.
  • CROMWELL, JARVIS, ed. Journal of a Trading Voyage around the World, 1805–1808. New York Historical Society Quarterly, 62( April 1978): 86–137.
  • DAVID, ANDREW C.F. The Surveys of William Bligh. [Note] Mariner’s Mirror, 63( February 1977): 69–70.
  • DAVID, ANDREW C.F. Broughton’s Schooner and the Bounty Mutineers. Mariner’s Mirror, 63( August 1977): 207–214.
  • DAVIES, ALUN C. The Life and Death of a Scientific Instrument: The Marine Chronometer, 1770–1920. Annals of Science, 35( September 1978): 509–525.
  • DAVIES, ARTHUR. Behaim, Martellus, and Columbus. Geographical Journal, 143( November 1977): 451–459.
  • EDWARDS, H.S. Edited by R.V. TOOLEY. Alexander Dalrymple, F.R.S. (1737–1808), First Hydrographer to the Admiralty. Map Collector, 1( September 1978): 19–29.
  • GAMA PIMENTAL BARATA, JOÃO DA. The Rock of Sintra: Columbus’ Landfall: Notes on the Article of Dr. Rose. Mariner’s Mirror, 64( May 1978): 186–187.
  • GOUGH, BARRY. James Cook and the Origins of the Maritime Fur Trade. American Neptune, 38( July 1978): 217–224.
  • PARRY, J. H. The Navigators of the Conquista. Terrae Incognitae, 10 (1978): 61–70.
  • ROSE, ROBERT M. The Rock of Sintra: Columbus’ Landfall. Mariner’s Mirror, 63( August 1977): 227–230.
  • TYACKE, SARAH. The Long Way Home for Sir Francis Drake. Geographical Magazine, 50( November 1977): 105–111.
  • WOODCOCK, GEORGE. Captain Cook at Nootka: The Political Aftermath. History Today, 28( February 1978): 97–104.
  • YONGE, C.M. The Sea-Otter and History. History Today, 28( March 1978): 171–177.
  • ZUCKERMAN, ARNOLD. Scurvey and the Ventilation of Ships. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 10( Winter 1976/77): 222–234.

Africa

  • BLAKE, JOHN W. West Africa: Quest for God and Gold, 1454–1578. A Survey of the First Century of White Enterprise in West Africa. London: Curzon Press, 1977. 246p. £4.50. ISBN: 0700700986.
  • BRENT, PETER. Black Nile: Mungo Park and the Search for the Niger. London: Gordon Cremonesi, 1977. 200p. $16.95. ISBN: 0860330176.
  • DERRICOURT, R.M. Early European Travellers in the Transkei and Ciskei. African Studies, 35( 3–4, 1976): 273–91.
  • DORAN, MICHAEL F. The Maritime Provenience of Iron Technology in West Africa. Terrae Incognitae, 9 (1977): 89–98.
  • FORBATH, PETER. The River Congo: The Discovery, Exploration, and Exploitation of the World’s Most Dramatic River. New York: Harper & Row, 1977. 404p. $15.00. ISBN: 0061224901.
  • WILSON, HENRY S. The Imperial Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa since 1870. (Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion: vol. 8.) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977. 415p. $18.50. ISBN: 0816607974.

Arctic/Antarctic

  • BERRY, FRANCIS, ed. I Tell of Greenland: An Edited Translation of the Saudharkrokur Manuscripts. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977. 205p. $10.95. ISBN: 0710085915.
  • BOCKSTOCE, JOHN R. and CHARLES F. BATCHELDER. A Chronological List of Commercial Wintering Voyages to the Bering Strait Region and Western Arctic of North America: 1850–1910. American Neptune, 38( April 1978): 81–91.
  • CASWELL, JOHN EDWARDS. The RGS and the British Arctic Expedition, 1875–76. Geographical Journal, 143( July 1977): 200–210.
  • COOKE, ALAN and CLIVE HOWARD. The Exploration of Northern Canada, 500–1920: A Chronology. Toronto: The Arctic History Press, 1978. 549p. $60.00. ISBN: 0771022654.
  • CURTIS, GEORGE H. Americus Vespucius Symmes and the North Greenland Expeditions of Robert E. Peary, 1891–1895. American Neptune, 38( January 1978): 41–51.
  • FISHER, RAYMOND H. Bering’s Voyages: Whither and Why. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977. 217p. $17.95. ISBN: 0295955627.
  • HALL, EDWIN S., JR. A Memento of the Northern Alaska Naval Exploring Expedition of 1885–86. Alaska Journal, 7( Spring 1977): 81–87.
  • JACOBSEN, JOHAN ADRIAN. Alaskan Voyage, 1881–1883: An Expedition to the Northwest Coast of America. Translated by Erna Gunther from the German text of Adrian Woldt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. 272p. $17.50. LC: 77–78066.
  • MACINNIS, JOSEPH B. Fire on the Ice: Men of the Erebus and Terror. Canadian Geographical Journal, 96( April/May 1978): 52–59.
  • MARSHALL-CORNWALL, SIR JAMES. An English Arctic Expedition: 1553. History Today, 27( November 1977): 741–746.
  • OWEN, RODERIC. The Fate of Franklin. London: Hutchinson, 1978. 471p. £9.95. ISBN: 009131190X.
  • RASKY, FRANK. The North Pole or Bust: Explorers of the North. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977. 415p. $17.95. ISBN: 0070825483.
  • SAUGSTAD, LETTEN FERGERSTEN, ET AL. Settlement of Iceland. Norwegian Archeological Review, 10( 1–2, 1977): 60–83.
  • SCOTT, JAMES M. Icebound: Journeys to the Northwest Sea. London: Gordon Cremonesi, 1977. 156p. $16.95. ISBN: 0860330184.
  • WORSLEY, F.A. Shackleton’s Boat Journey. New York: W.W. Norton, 1977. 220p. $8.95. ISBN: 039308759X.

Australia and the South Pacific

  • GIRAUD, YVES. De l’Exploration à l’Utopie: Notes sur la Formation du Mythe de Tahiti. French Studies, 31( January 1977): 26–41.
  • GOODE, JOHN. The Rape of the Fly [Papua, New Guinea]. Melbourne: Nelson, 1977. 272p. ISBN: 0170051773.
  • HILDER, BRETT. The First Navigation of Torres’ Strait. Journal of Navigation, 30( September 1977): 459–466.
  • INGLETON, GEOFFREY C. ‘The First Navigation of Torres’ Strait’: Some Comments. Journal of Navigation, 31( May 1978): 232–243.
  • MCINTYRE, KENNETH GORDON. The Secret Discovery of Australia. Portuguese Ventures 200 Years Before Captain Cook. London: Souvenir Press, 1977. 427p. £6.50. ISBN: 0285623036.
  • SCHILDER, GUNTER. A Continent Found by Mistake. Geographical Magazine, 50( February 1978): 335–342.

Canada

  • BARKHAM, SELMA. The Basques: Filling a Gap in Our History between Jacques Cartier and Champlain. Canadian Geographical Journal, 96( February/March 1978): 8–19.
  • BARKHAM, SELMA. The Identification of Labrador Ports in Spanish 16th-Century Documents. The Canadian Cartographer, 14( June 1977): 1–9.
  • FISHER, ROBIN. Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774–1890. Vancouver: University of Columbia Press, 1977. 250p. $18.00. ISBN: 0774800658.
  • INGLIS, ALEX. Northern Vagabond: The Life and Career of J.B. Tyrrell. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978. 256p. $14.95. ISBN: 0771043570.
  • LAVENDER, DAVID. First Crossing: Alexander Mackenzie’s Quest for the Pacific. American West, 14( September/October 1978): 4–11.
  • ROBINSON, HENRY M. The Remarkable Activities of the Gentlemen Adventures of the Great Hudson’s Bay Company During the Years 1670–1879. Ashland, Ore.: Oregon Book Society, 1977. 60p. LC: 77–80926. (Reprint of article in Harper’s Monthly, June 1879.)
  • SLATTERY, BRIAN. French Claims in North America, 1500–59. Canadian Historical Review, 59( June 1978): 139–169.
  • UPTON, L.F.S. The Extermination of the Beothucks of Newfoundland. Canadian Historical Review, 58( June 1977): 133–153.

Central and South America

  • BLACK, JAN KNIPPERS. United States Penetration of Brazil. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977. 313p. $14.00. ISBN: 0812277201.
  • FIKES, ROBERT, JR. Jose de Acosta’s Window on the New World. Americas, 30( June-July 1978): 29–31.
  • GERHARD, PETER. A Black Conquistador in Mexico. Hispanic American Historical Review, 58( August 1978): 451–459.
  • GIBSON, CHARLES. Conquest, Capitulation, and Indian Treaties. American Historical Review, 83( February 1978): 1–15.
  • HEMMING, JOHN. Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978. 677p. $18.50. ISBN: 0674751078.
  • LORIMER, JOYCE. Ralegh’s First Reconnaissance of Guiana? An English Survey of the Orinoco in 1587. Terrae Incognitae, 9 (1977): 7–21.
  • SCHWARTZ, STUART B. Indian Labor and New World Plantations: European Demands and Indian Responses in Northeastern Brazil. American Historical Review, 83( February 1978): 43–79.
  • SZARKA, ANDREW S. Louis XIV and Brazil: The French Probe into Maranhão, 1697–1700. Proceedings of the French Colonial Historical Society, 2 (1977): 133–148.
  • WARREN, J. BENEDICT. La Conquista de Michoacán, 1521–1530. Morelia: Fimax Publicistas, 1977. 488p.
  • WEBER, DAVID J. Mexico’s Far Northern Frontier, 1821–1845. Arizona West, 19( Autumn 1977): 225–266.

Near East and Asia

  • BUCKLEY, NORA C. Bento de Goes’ Search for Cathay. History Today, 28( September 1978): 563–573.
  • BUCKLEY, NORA C. Matteo Ricci in China, 1583–1610. History Today, 27( September 1977): 573–584.
  • FREETH, ZAHRA and VICTOR WINSTONE. Explorers of Arabia from the Renaissance to the Victorian Era. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977. 308p. £7.50. ISBN: 0049530097.
  • GARDENER, WILLIAM. China and Russia: The Beginnings of Contact. History Today, 27( January 1977): 22–30.
  • GARDENER, WILLIAM. Peking to Moscow: The Trans-Siberian Caravan Route. History Today, 27( April 1977): 211–218.
  • LACH, DONALD. Asia in the Making of Europe: Vol. II, A Century of Wonder. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. 2v. $50.00. ISBN: 0226467503, 0226467511.
  • LINCOLN, W. BRUCE. Peter Semenov in Central Asia, 1856–1857. History Today, 28( March 1978): 153–160.
  • SADLEIR, GEORGE FORSTER. Diary of a Journey Across Arabia, 1819. Introduction by F.M. Edwards. New York: Oleander Press, 1977. 161p. ISBN: 0902675591. (Reprint of the 1866 edition).
  • SKILLITER, S.A. William Harbome and the Trade with Turkey, 1578–1582. Oxford: The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1978. 291p. $38.00. ISBN: 0197259715.

Pre-Columbian

  • ANDERSON, W.R. Norsemen in Medieval America: An Appraisal of the Evidence. Inland Seas, 34( Fall 1978): 190–199.
  • BEALL, CHARLES P. Frisland: Myth or Reality? Terrae Incognitae, 9 (1977): 81–88.
  • CASSIDY, VINCENT H. New Worlds and Everyman: Some Thoughts on the Logic and Logistics of Pre-Columbian Discoveries. Terrae Incognitae, 10 (1978): 7–13.
  • COOK, WARREN L., ed. Ancient Vermont: Proceedings of the Castleton Conference. Rutland, Vt.: Published for Castleton State College by Academy Books, 1978. 172p. $12.00. ISBN: 91496013X.
  • COOK, WARREN L., Tempest Over Ancient America: Vermont Conference of 1977. Terrae Incognitae, 10 (1978): 81–85.
  • GARNER, FRADLEY. The Vanished Norsemen. Geographical Magazine, 50( April 1978): 446–451.
  • HUBBARD, J.T.W. ‘. . .En Otros Tiempos. .’: Did the Men of Bristol Discover Newfoundland in 1481? American Neptune, 37( July 1977): 157–163.
  • INGSTAD, ANNE STINE. The Discovery of a Norse Settlement in America: Excavations at l’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland 1961 bis 1968. With contributions by Charles J. Bareis, John H. Winston u.a. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1977; New York: distributed by Columbia University Press. 2v. $40.00. ISBN: 82000015130.
  • LANGENBERG, INGE. Die Vinland-Fahrten: Die Entdeckung Amerikas von Erik dem Roten bis Kolumbus (1000–1492). Köln: Bohlau Verlag, 1977. 182p. ISBN: 3412041777.
  • LINDSAY, CHARLES. Was l’Anse aux Meadows a Norse Outpost? Canadian Geographical Journal, 94( February/March 1977): 36–43.
  • MCGHEE, ROBERT and JAMES TUCK. Did the Medieval Irish Visit Newfoundland? Canadian Geographical Journal, 94( June/July 1977): 66–73.
  • SCHOMP, GERALD. St. Brendan’s Fantastic Voyage. American History Illustrated, 12( April 1977): 22–27.
  • SEVERIN, TIMOTHY. The Brendan Voyage. New York: McGraw Hill, 1978. 292p. $12.95. ISBN: 0070563357.
  • SEVERIN, TIMOTHY. Voyage in a Leather Boat. Geographical Magazine, 50( January 1978): 247–257.
  • SPANN, PHILIP O. Sallust, Plutarch, and the “Isles of the Blest.” Terrae Incognitae, 9 (1977): 75–80.

U.S.—East of the Mississippi

  • EARLE, CARVILLE. The First English Towns of North America. Geographical Review, 67( January 1977): 34–50.
  • LEE-RIFFE, NANCY. “The Heavenly Plantation”: A Seventeenth-Century Mention of Florida. Florida Historical Quarterly, 56( October 1977): 148–149.
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