Andrew David served for more than forty years in the Royal Navy, including a period (1961-85) at the Hydrographic Office of the Ministry of Defence. Among his many publications is The Voyage of HMS Herald to Australia and the Pacific 1852-1861 (1995), and he was the chief editor of The Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages (1988-97). Felipe Fernández-Armesto is Professorial Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of the Modern History Faculty of Oxford University. His publications include many papers on maritime, cartographic and early colonial history, and among recent books, Civilisations (2000) and Food: A History (2001). Carlos Novi was from 1972 to 1989 Head of the Spanish Translation Section, and Director with special responsibility for the harmonization of terminology, at the United Nations Maritime Organization (London). After retiring from the IMO in 1989 his life-long interest in naval history became a full-time pursuit. Glyndwr Williams is Emeritus Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London. His research interests include North American and Pacific exploration history; and among his recent publications are The Great South Sea (1997) and The Prize of all the Oceans (1999). Donald C. Cutter is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. His major interests have been in the Spanish exploration, conquest and settlement of what is today the American West. His interest in Malaspina is long-standing; he has written three books and more than a dozen articles on various aspects of the expedition.
