Recent Literature in Discovery History

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Primary sources: new or reprint editions/anthologies Barkley, Henry C. A Ride through Asia Minor and Armenia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. (Note: Cambridge University Press has recently published a number of works relating to exploration in its Travel and Exploration Series.) Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez. The South American Expeditions, 1540–1545. Trans. Baker H. Morrow. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. Ibn FadlĀn. Ibn Fadl×n and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North. Trans. Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone. New York: Penguin Classics, 2012. Watrous, Stephen D., ed. John Ledyard’s Journey through Russia and Siberia, 1787– 1788: The Journal and Selected Letters. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.