Civil And Savage Encounters: The Worldly Travel Letters Of An Imperial Russian Navy Officer 1860-1861
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Condition: VG. Jacket: VG Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and intact.
In the turbulent years of 1860–1861, Imperial Russian Navy Officer Pavel N. Golovin embarked on a remarkable journey across some of the world's most remote and culturally distinct territories, documenting his experiences in a series of vivid, candid travel letters that bridge the civilised and the untamed. Civil and Savage Encounters presents these extraordinary dispatches in full, translated and annotated by Basil Dmytryshyn and E.A.P. Crownhart-Vaughan, offering an unfiltered window into the geopolitical realities, indigenous cultures, and colonial tensions of the mid-nineteenth century Pacific world. Golovin's letters pulse with the curiosity and frank judgements of a man shaped by Imperial Russia's naval ambitions, chronicling encounters with foreign peoples and landscapes with a directness that is at once historically revealing and deeply personal. The volume stands as a vital primary source for scholars of Russian imperial history, Pacific exploration, and cross-cultural contact, while Thomas Vaughan's introduction anchors these letters within their broader historical significance. Readers are left with a lingering question: in whose civilisation did the true savagery reside?
Author: Pavel N. Golovin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, The Press of the Oregon Historical Society
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Condition: VG. Jacket: VG Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and intact.
In the turbulent years of 1860–1861, Imperial Russian Navy Officer Pavel N. Golovin embarked on a remarkable journey across some of the world's most remote and culturally distinct territories, documenting his experiences in a series of vivid, candid travel letters that bridge the civilised and the untamed. Civil and Savage Encounters presents these extraordinary dispatches in full, translated and annotated by Basil Dmytryshyn and E.A.P. Crownhart-Vaughan, offering an unfiltered window into the geopolitical realities, indigenous cultures, and colonial tensions of the mid-nineteenth century Pacific world. Golovin's letters pulse with the curiosity and frank judgements of a man shaped by Imperial Russia's naval ambitions, chronicling encounters with foreign peoples and landscapes with a directness that is at once historically revealing and deeply personal. The volume stands as a vital primary source for scholars of Russian imperial history, Pacific exploration, and cross-cultural contact, while Thomas Vaughan's introduction anchors these letters within their broader historical significance. Readers are left with a lingering question: in whose civilisation did the true savagery reside?