| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly 32.2

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Book Review

Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930. Edited by Edward C. Carter II. (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999. xv + 344 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, index. $25.00.)

The conference that convened at Philadelphia, 14–16 March 1997, on North American scientific exploration, was a memorable event. Sponsored by the American Philosophical Society, it featured papers by a variety of scholars--geographers, anthropologists, and historians, including historians of art and the natural sciences. This volume, edited by the society's librarian, includes most of the presentations. The presentors ranged from well known and highly regarded scholars to graduate students who showed potential for future attainments. 1

The book may be considered a supplement or companion-piece to the splendid three-volume work North American Exploration, edited by John L. Allen (Lincoln, 1977). Allen's stimulating introductory essay to Surveying the Record provides an overview of exploration studies from the ancient Greeks to William H. Goetzmann. The rest of the volume offers a good mix of the factual and the interpretative. Collectively, the authors deal with North America only insofar as the United States, Canada, and the surrounding seas are treated. Mexico is scarcely mentioned, and Katherine E. Manthorne's piece on Frederic Church discusses,with the exception of one work, only the artist's South American paintings. . . .

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