Diary of F.P. Litke's round-the-world voyage on the sloop "Kamchatka" in 1817-1819
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Diary of F.P. Litke's round-the-world voyage on the sloop "Kamchatka" in 1817-1819
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The diary of the sloop Kamchatka's circumnavigation of the globe in 1817–1819, under the command of Captain 2nd Rank V. M. Golovnin, was kept by F. P. Litke, a midshipman in the Russian Imperial Navy. He later became a renowned navigator, admiral, one of the founders of the Russian Geographical Society, and president of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
The diary is written in vivid, figurative language and contains fascinating details about the voyage, descriptions of countries and territories remote from Russia, little-studied islands lost in the oceans, and the lives and customs of the peoples inhabiting them.
Reading this publication will expand your knowledge of history, ethnography, and geography, and allow you to more accurately appreciate the contribution Russian sailors made to the study of the oceans.
To make the source more accessible to modern readers, the compilers have provided it with extensive scientific reference material, including historical and archaeographic prefaces, scholarly commentary, a name, geographic, and ship index, a glossary, and a compass table.
This publication is recommended for both specialists in the history of naval expeditions and circumnavigations, as well as for the general reader.
The diary is written in vivid, figurative language and contains fascinating details about the voyage, descriptions of countries and territories remote from Russia, little-studied islands lost in the oceans, and the lives and customs of the peoples inhabiting them.
Reading this publication will expand your knowledge of history, ethnography, and geography, and allow you to more accurately appreciate the contribution Russian sailors made to the study of the oceans.
To make the source more accessible to modern readers, the compilers have provided it with extensive scientific reference material, including historical and archaeographic prefaces, scholarly commentary, a name, geographic, and ship index, a glossary, and a compass table.
This publication is recommended for both specialists in the history of naval expeditions and circumnavigations, as well as for the general reader.
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