Terrae Incognitae
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I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United Kingdom

Journal ISSN: 00822884, 20408706

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.

History: 1969-2021

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Scope/Description:

Terrae Incognitae is an interdisciplinary peerreviewed journal published for the Society for the History of Discoveries. The aim is to examine the history and impact of geographic exploration and crosscultural interaction around the globe prior to the modern era. Each issue includes an expansive book review section.Recent articles have ranged from the use of DNA technology to track the movement of chickens and thus populations in prehistoric Oceania to the role of the Order of Christ in furthering 16thcentury Portuguese expansion from the significance of intercultural adoption or rejection of clothing for understanding crosscultural interaction to Marco Polos influence on cartography.Terrae Incognitae accepts contributions relating to geographic exploration and its impact from all chronologies before the modern era and relating to any part of the globe.The journal welcomes comparative and interdisciplinary studies as well as those focused on a particular time or place.The origin of geographic discovery and exploration is lost to the mist of timeperhaps when an early hominid went searching for game and discovered another group of humans. Geographic discovery is about more than the moment of discovery however. It is about theoretical geography put into practice it is about bankrolling expeditions whether through the investment of wealthy widows old age pensions financiers or governments it is about maps and mapmakers it is about diplomats missionaries explorers scallywags and pirates naturalists and merchantadventurers. Geographic discovery is about people broadening their horizons encountering one another for the first time struggling to understand a foreign culture and braving the unknown in search of a new destiny.