Chapter 1 Introduction: Articulating Empire's Unstable Zones, Frederic Regard; Chapter 1a Encountering Africa: Uses of the Other in the Book of John Mandeville (1357), Kofi Campbell; Chapter 2 Naming the Other, Claiming the Other in Early Modern Accounts of First Encounters: From Mandeville to John Nicholl (1607) and Richard Jobson (1623), Nicholas Myers, Ladan Niayesh; Chapter 3 False Play and Dumb Show in the World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake (1628), Sophie Lemercier-Goddard; Chapter 4 'Waterali' Goes Native: Describing First Encounters in Sir Walter Ralegh's the Discovery of Guiana (1596), Line Cottegnies; Chapter 5 Domestication and Recognition of the Other in John Lawson's a New Voyage to Carolina (1709), Robert Sayre; Chapter 6 The (He) Art of First Encounter at Tahiti: Samuel Wallis's Conflicts of Interest (1767), Sandhya Patel; Chapter 7 Distance and Proximity in James Cook's First Voyage Around the World (1768-71), Anne Dromart; Chapter 8 Walking in the Contact Zone: Georg Forster and the Peripatetic Mode of Exploration (1768-77), Christian Moser; Chapter 9 The Disorder of Things: Empiricism and the Cartographic Enterprise, or, The Observations of Samuel Hearne (1795) and Alexander Mackenzie (1801), Cheryl Cundell; Chapter 10 John Franklin and the Idea of North: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-1822, Catherine Lanone; Chapter 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), Anne-Pascale Bruneau; Chapter 12 Trying to Understand: James Tod Among the Rajputs (1829, 1832), Florence D'Souza; Chapter 13 Shifting Perspectives: Visual Representation and the Imperial 'I' in Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838), Jennifer Scott; Chapter 14 Charles Darwin in Patagonia: Descriptive Strategies in the Beagle Diary (1831-1836) and the Voyage of the Beagle (1845), Virginia Richter; Chapter 15 Fieldwork as Self-Harrowing: Richard Burton's Cultural Evolution (1851-1856), Frederic Regard; Chapter 16 Fictionalizing the Encounter with the Other: Henry Morton Stanley and the African Wilderness (1872-1890), Nicoletta Brazzelli;
