Parts Unknown: History as Exploration

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The impulse to explore is universal. Unfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curiosity, connection, and exchange. Familiar icons of exploration like Pocahontas, Columbus, Coronado, Sacagawea, and Captain Cook find new company in the untold stories of people usually denied the title “explorers,” including immigrants, indigenous interpreters, local guides, and fugitive slaves. As Lockwood makes clear, people of every background imagine new worlds. Adventurers from every corner of the globe search for the unknown and try to understand it, remaking the world and themselves in the process. Exploration is for everyone who sets off into the unknown. It is the inheritance of all.

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Matthew Lockwood is an associate professor of history at the University of Alabama. He earned his PhD from Yale University and is the author of This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain,  The Conquest of Death, and To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection and one of the Financial Times Top 10 Books of the Year.