Peter C. Mancall is Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and the Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. He is the author of five books, including Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol In Early America (Cornell, 1995); Hakluyt’s Promise: an Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America (Yale, 2007); and Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson--a Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic (Basic Books, 2009); and the editor of ten books, including Travel Narratives A from the Age of Discovery (Oxford, 2006) and The Atlantic World and Virginia 1550-1624 (Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina, 2007).