Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy / translated from the original German, by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq.

Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806 : by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy / translated from the original German, by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq.

Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1813]

London : Printed by C. Roworth for John Murray, bookseller to the admiralty and the Board of Longitude, 1813.

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1 online resource (2 volumes) : color illustrations, folded map.

Originally published simultaneously in Russian and German.
This is the first English ed.; Hill I, p. 167. "Kruzenshtern was unhappy with the translation, feeling that the translator lacked knowledge of nautical information ..."--Hill.
Without the atlas accompanying the Russian/German edition, and the French translations.
"Captain Kruzenshtern, appointed to command the first Russian round-the-world expedition, had serving with him ... Lisianski, Langsdorff, and Kotzebue. [He] was to attempt to open relations with Nippon and the Sandwich Islands, to facilitate trade in South America to examine California for a possible colony, and make a thorough study and report of the Northwest coast, its trade and its future."--Hill.
Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

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