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Glenn Burger, Lesley B. Cormack, Jonathan Hart, Natalia Pylypiuk, eds.
Making Contact: Maps, Identity and Travel.
Published Edmonton: Alberta U.P., 2003.
ISBN 0888643772;
ISBN-13 9780888643773.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Friesens, Altona.
Size: 152x228x22mm.
Page count: xxxv,284pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the covers, a little wear on the edges, with the corners starting to curl and fray; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £12.50
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price $34.95/£29.50]
Weight without packaging: 523g.

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Emphasis late medieval and early modern.

Contents:
Cormack & Pylypiuk, Intro. — contact & identity;
Westrem, Africa unbounded — an unstudied Mappamundi (ca. 1450) & related cartography;
Frick, Bells of Vilnius — keeping time in a city of many calendars;
Kruger, (De)stabilized identities in medieval Jewish-Christian disputations on the Talmud;
Ayako, Jesuit missionaries & earliest contact between European & Japanese cultures;
Woodbridge, Rogues, aborigines & Elizabethan subjectivity;
DePasquale, Conflicted author(s) of a late 16th‑c. travel account;
Lee, Stylizations of selfhood in Pierre-Esprit Radisson's Voyages;
Young, Cabeza de Vaca in history, fiction & film;
Hart, Afterword — making contact — maps of identity.

Illustrations: 6, monochrome
Maps & plans: 1

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 25pp
Index: yes

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