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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Govor, Elena
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.