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Twelve days at Nuku Hiva : Russian encounters and mutiny in the South Pacific /

In August 1803 two Russian ships, the Nadezhda and the Neva, set off on a round-the-world voyage to carry out scientific exploration and collect artifacts for Alexander I's ethnographic museum in St. Petersburg. Russia's strategic concerns in the north Pacific, however, led the Russian gov...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Govor, Elena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. From Russia to Nuku Hiva
  • pt. 2. Nuku Hiva
  • Day 1: Encounter : 25 April (7 May) 1804
  • Day 2: Discovery : 26 April (8 May) 1804
  • Day 3: Immersion : 27 April (9 May) 1804
  • Day 4: Tattooing : 28 April (10 May) 1804
  • Day 5: Heresy : 29 April (11 May) 1804
  • Day 6: Tension : 30 April (12 May) 1804
  • Day 7: Temptations : 1/13 May 1804
  • Day 8: Catharsis : 2/14 May 1804
  • Day 9: Dislocation : 3/15 May 1804
  • Days 10-12: Parting : 4/16-6/18 May 1804
  • pt. 3. From Nuku Hiva to Russia
  • Epilogue: Nuku Hiva revisited.