Southern and Eastern Polynesia

Volume 2 of Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840

By Glynn Barratt
Publisher: UBC Press
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774843126, 316 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774856843, 316 pages, January 1988
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Table of contents

Illustrations

Introduction

Part One: Easter Island

1. Preparations for a Voyage

2. The Russian Texts

3. The Scientific Legacy

Part Two: New Zealand

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

Part Three: The Austral Islands

7. The Bellingshausen Contacts, 1820

8. The Russian Texts

9. Reflections on the Ethnographic Evidence

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Description

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.

Reviews

Barratt has made available fresh material on the Russian expeditions that will be of considerable interest to historians of maritime exploration.

- Christon I. Archer

His careful translations of personal journals make for fascinating reading in addition to their worth to ethnographers.

- Louise McReynolds