Anita McConnell Editor & Author

Herbert K. Beals is an expert on the Spanish exploration on the north-west coast of America. Captain R. J. Campbell served in the Royal Navy as Hydrographic Surveyor, and has previously edited The Discovery of the South Shetland Islands (2000) for The Hakluyt Society. Ann Savours (Dr Ann Shirley) worked at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, and then at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Anita McConnell was curator of Earth Sciences at the Science Museum, London. Roy Bridges is President of The Hakluyt Society and Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, UK.