CONTENTS

pp vii-viii

Introduction: Articulating Empire's Unstable Zones

pp 1-18

I - Fantasy, Wonder and Mimicry: Proto-Ethnography from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance

1 - Encountering Africa: Uses of the Other in The Book of John Mandeville (1357)

pp 19-28

2 - Naming the Other, Claiming the Other in Early Modern Accounts of First Encounters: from Mandeville to John Nicholl (1607) and Richard Jobson (1623)

pp 29-38

3 - False Play and Dumb Show in The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake (1628)

pp 39-50

4 - ‘Waterali’ Goes Native: Describing First Encounters in Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discovery of Guiana (1596)

pp 51-62

II - Distance in Question: Translating the Other in the Eighteenth Century

5 - Domestication and Recognition of the Other in John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina (1709)

pp 63-70

6 - The (He)art of First Encounter at Tahiti: Samuel Wallis's Conflicts of Interest (1767)

pp 71-82

7 - Distance and Proximity in James Cook's First Voyage around the World (1768–1771)

pp 83-96

8 - Walking in the Contact Zone: Georg Forster and the Peripatetic Mode of Exploration (1768–1777)

pp 97-106

9 - The Disorder of Things: Empiricism and the Cartographic Enterprise, or, the Observations of Samuel Hearne (1795) and Alexander Mackenzie (1801)

pp 107-118

III - Stereotypes Undermined: Shifting the Self in the Nineteenth Century

10 - John Franklin and the Idea of North: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819–1822

pp 119-130

11 - ‘Cultivating that Mutual Friendship’: Commerce, Diplomacy and Self-Representation in Hugh Clapperton's Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo (1829)

pp 131-140

12 - Trying to Understand: James Tod among the Rajputs (1829, 1832)

pp 141-152

13 - 'Shifting Perspectives: Visual Representation and the Imperial ‘I’ in Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada' (1838)

pp 153-166

14 - Charles Darwin in Patagonia: Descriptive Strategies in the Beagle Diary (1831–1836) and The Voyage of the Beagle (1845)

pp 167-178

15 - Fieldwork as Self-Harrowing: Richard Burton's Cultural Evolution (1851–1856)

pp 179-192

16 - Fictionalizing the Encounter with the Other: Henry Morton Stanley and the African Wilderness (1872–1890)

pp 193-202

Notes

pp 203-226

Works Cited

pp 227-238

Index

pp 239-247