Adriana Craciun is the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities at Boston University.
Terrall Mary :

Mary Terrall is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

"Featuring an impressive list of contributors, the main purpose of Curious Encounters is a laudable one: to disseminate knowledge about early travellers and discoveries in less-trodden areas of the world."

Richard C. Taylor, Department of English, East Carolina University:

"This book establishes the ‘new geographies of knowledge and power’ that transformed British culture, and those that eighteenth-century explorers encountered, read, and misread. Eighteenth-century specialists, those interested in British cultural history, and literature on voyaging and colonization will appreciate Curious Encounters."