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1 online resource (339 pages) |
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Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; PART ONE: EASTER ISLAND; PART TWO: NEW ZEALAND; PART THREE: THE AUSTRAL ISLANDS; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 1 Preparations for a Voyage; 2 The Russian Texts; 3 The Scientific Legacy; 4 Earlier Russian Knowledge of New Zealand; 5 The Russians in New Zealand; 6 The Russian Ethnographic Record for Queen Charlotte Sound, 1820; Envoi: Scientific and Political Developments, 1828-32; 7 The Bellingshausen Contacts, 1820; 8 The Russian Texts; 9 Reflections on the Ethnographic Evidence; Name Index; Place Index; Ship Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K |
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| Summary |
The second volume in Glynn Barratt's projected quartet on the naval, scientific, and social activities of the Imperial Russian Navy in the South Pacific, this book describes Russian activities in New Zealand, the Austral Islands and Easter Island. These widely scattered areas were all visited by warships of the Russian navy and by companies of highly educated and observant officers and ""gentlemen of science"" in the early 1800's. Barratt's annotated and careful translations of the visitors' eyewitness accounts provide fascinating, sometimes amusing, reading about the landfalls of the ships |
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Print version record |
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Discoveries in geography -- Russian
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International relations
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Soviet Union -- History
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Soviet Union -- History, Naval
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Polynesia -- Discovery and exploration -- Russian
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Easter Island -- Discovery and exploration -- Russian
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New Zealand -- Discovery and exploration -- Russian
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Austral Islands (French Polynesia) -- Discovery and exploration -- Russian
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Soviet Union -- Relations -- Polynesia
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Easter Island
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French Polynesia -- Austral Islands
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New Zealand
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Polynesia
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Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Naval history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780774856843 |
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077485684X |
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