TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barratt,Glynn
TI  - The Tuamotu Islands and Tahiti: Volume 4 of Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840
SN  - 9780774856584
AV  - DU890 -- .B37 1992eb 
U1  - 996.3 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Vancouver
PB  - University of British Columbia Press
KW  - Scientific expeditions -- French Polynesia -- Tuamotu Archipelago -- History
KW  - Scientific expeditions -- French Polynesia -- Tahiti -- History
KW  - Iles Tuamotu et Gambier (French Polynesia) -- Discovery and exploration -- Russian
KW  - Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island) -- Discovery and exploration -- Russian
KW  - Soviet Union -- History, Naval
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations, Maps, and Tables -- Preliminary Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THE TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO -- 1 A Survey -- 2 The Russian Texts -- 3 Russian Science -- PART TWO: TAHITI -- 4 An Overview -- 5 The Russian Texts -- 6 Russian and Russo-German Science -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Place Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Ship Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V
N2  - The final volume in the quartet of books on the naval, scientific, and social activities of the Imperial Russian Navy in the South Pacific, this book focuses on the expeditions to Tahiti and the dangerous atoll chains to its east, known as the Tuamotus
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ER  -