Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Conventions xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. 1. Who Was That Masked Man? 1
7. 2. Writing Missions 13
8. 3. Telling Missionary Lives 30
9. 4. Making Jesuit Science Travel 51
10. 5. Reading Jesuit Voyages 77
11. 6. Jesuit Academicians 93
12. 7. Observational Fortunes 110
13. 8. Familiar Letters and Familiar Faces 129
14. Epilogue 147
15. Notes 149
16. Bibliography 219
17. Index 261