Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Life in the Contact Zone -- 1 Travel and Exploration Literature: Constructing the New World -- 2 Approaching Sublimity: Aesthetics, Exploration, and the Northwest Coast -- 3 Science and Ethnography: The Field of Vision -- 4 Cook and the Cannibals: The Limits of Understanding -- 5 Reconstructing Cook -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.