Bellingshausen and the Russian Antarctic expedition, 1819-21 /

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Author / Creator:Bulkeley, Rip.
Imprint:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description:xxix, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9965699
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ISBN:9780230363267 (cloth)
0230363261 (cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-266) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Maps
  • List of Tables
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements and Sources
  • Chronology of Bellingshausen's Life and European Events
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Part I. Imperial Quest
  • 1. Port Jackson, April 1820
  • 2. The Commander
  • 3. Southward Ho!
  • 4. Wanted on Voyage
  • Part II. Reports
  • Translator's Note
  • 5. First Season: December 1819 to September 1820
  • B1. First report
  • B2. Second report
  • B3. Third report
  • B4. Fourth report
  • B5. Covering letter
  • B6. Personal letter
  • B7. Fifth report
  • B8. Sixth report
  • VI. Covering letter
  • 6. Second Season: November 1820 to August 1821
  • B9. Seventh report
  • T1. Memorandum
  • B10. Final (eighth) report
  • 7. The Able Seaman
  • K1. Diary of Yegor Kisilëv
  • 8. The Astronomer
  • S1. Journal of I. M. Simonov
  • S2. Duties of the astronomer
  • 9. The Lieutenant
  • L1. Letter to Captain Lieutenant Shestakov, 1821
  • L2. Letter to Captain Lieutenant Shestakov, 1834 (excerpt)
  • 10. Other Witnesses
  • 11. Homecoming
  • 01. News report from Otechestvennyye Zapiski, July 1821
  • Part III. Findings
  • 12. Achievements
  • 13. Future Research
  • 14. Afterwords
  • Appendix 1. Crew Lists of H1MS Vostok and Mirnyi
  • Appendix 2. Four Deaths
  • Appendix 3. Measurements and Money
  • Appendix 4. The Sizes of the Ships
  • Appendix 5. How Accurate Were They?
  • Appendix 6. Ice Vocabulary
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index