Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva : Russian Encounters and Mutiny in the South Pacific /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Govor, Elena
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Russia. > Voennyĭ flot.
Russia. > Voennyĭ flot > History > 19th century.
Meuterei
Expedition
Russians.
Mutiny.
Marquesans.
Manners and customs.
Ethnic relations.
Discoveries in geography > Russian.
Acculturation.
HISTORY > Social History.
HISTORY.
Mutineries > Polynesie française > Nuku Hiva > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Russes > Polynesie française > Nuku Hiva > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Marquisiens > Polynesie française > Nuku Hiva > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mutiny > French Polynesia > Nuka Hiva > History > 19th century.
Russians > French Polynesia > Nuka Hiva > History > 19th century.
Marquesans > French Polynesia > Nuka Hiva > History > 19th century.
Acculturation > French Polynesia > Nuka Hiva > History > 19th century.
Russen.
Nuku Hiva
French Polynesia > Nuka Hiva.
French Polynesia > Marquesas Islands.
Nuku Hiva (Polynesie française) > Moeurs et coutumes > 19e siecle.
Nuku Hiva (Polynesie française) > Relations interethniques > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) > Discovery and exploration > Russian.
Nuka Hiva (French Polynesia) > Discovery and exploration > Russian.
Nuka Hiva (French Polynesia) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Nuka Hiva (French Polynesia) > Ethnic relations > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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