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Douze jours a Nuku Hiva: Rencontres et revolte russe dans le Pacifique Sud
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La premiere expedition russe autour du monde, a l'aube du dix-neuvieme siecle, fit suite a celles de Bougainville, Cook et La Perouse. Menee par le commandant balte-allemand Adam von Krusenstern, elle etait, a elle seule, tout un monde compose de savants et naturalistes, d'officiers et marins moujiks, d'un ambassadeur de la cour du tsar et de quelques marins Japonais embarques sur la Nadezhda et la Neva. Ces Russes de divers ethnies de l'empire et au-dela : Estoniens, Baltes, Allemands, Tartares ou Suisse, aborderent en mai 1804 aux Marquises (Polynesie francaise). La rencontre de ces mondes offre un inestimable instantane de la societe de Nuku Hiva a la veille d'un profond changement.

Douze jours plus tard, elle quittait l'ile ebranlee par un amer litige entre les capitaines et le representant du tsar a bord, mais aussi chargee de nourriture, d'eau douce et de dizaines de temoignages, materiels et immateriels, d'un Francais marquisien , de croquis et tatouages. De retour au pays, ces hommes livrerent toutes sortes de recits et souvenirs, autour d'eux, vehicules en diverses langues mais au fil des aleas de l'Histoire, guerres et revolutions, ils se disperserent a travers l'Europe, l'Amerique, l'Asie, leurs archives et leurs musees.

C'est aujourd'hui le temps de rapprocher Marquisiens et Occidentaux de pages uniques de leur histoire et heritage culturel. Dans cet ouvrage sont reunis, pour la premiere fois en francais, ces pans de recits. Grace a une collection d'illustrations plus vaste que l'edition anglaise originale de 2010, aux vocabulaires et annotations de Marie-Noelle Ottino-Garanger, il est apporte un eclairage, aussi riche que possible, sur cette etonnante aventure humaine.

English abstract

The first Russian voyage around the world was launched at the turn of the nineteenth century in the wake of Bougainville’s, Cook’s and La Perouse’s expeditions to the Pacific. Led by the Baltic German commander Adam von Krusenstern, the expedition comprised a diverse intellectual community of savants and naturalists from Switzerland, Germany, modern day Estonia, and Russia. In May 1804, the ships Nadezhda and Neva berthed at Nuku Hiva Island in the Marquesas (French Polynesia), recording an invaluable snapshot of traditional Nuku Hivan society on the eve of profound cultural change.

Twelve days later, reeling from a bitter conflict between the captains and the onboard representative of the Russian Tsar, the ships left the island laden with food, sweet water, knowledge, artefacts, scores of sketches, a French-marquesan and many tattoos. On their return home, they told their stories in a variety of voices, languages, genres and media which have since been scattered by wars and revolution across the archives and museums of Europe, America and Asia.

The time is here to reunite Marquesans with this unique page of their history and cultural heritage. This study, for the first time in the French language, brings together these disparate stories and images. With a collection of images far vaster than that of the original 2010 English edition, along with vocabularies, data drawn from the records of the expedition members, and extensive notes by Marie-Noelle Ottino-Garanger proving broader context, this edition is encyclopaedic in its scope.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Sidestone Press
Date
31 January 2022
Pages
408
ISBN
9789464260182

La premiere expedition russe autour du monde, a l'aube du dix-neuvieme siecle, fit suite a celles de Bougainville, Cook et La Perouse. Menee par le commandant balte-allemand Adam von Krusenstern, elle etait, a elle seule, tout un monde compose de savants et naturalistes, d'officiers et marins moujiks, d'un ambassadeur de la cour du tsar et de quelques marins Japonais embarques sur la Nadezhda et la Neva. Ces Russes de divers ethnies de l'empire et au-dela : Estoniens, Baltes, Allemands, Tartares ou Suisse, aborderent en mai 1804 aux Marquises (Polynesie francaise). La rencontre de ces mondes offre un inestimable instantane de la societe de Nuku Hiva a la veille d'un profond changement.

Douze jours plus tard, elle quittait l'ile ebranlee par un amer litige entre les capitaines et le representant du tsar a bord, mais aussi chargee de nourriture, d'eau douce et de dizaines de temoignages, materiels et immateriels, d'un Francais marquisien , de croquis et tatouages. De retour au pays, ces hommes livrerent toutes sortes de recits et souvenirs, autour d'eux, vehicules en diverses langues mais au fil des aleas de l'Histoire, guerres et revolutions, ils se disperserent a travers l'Europe, l'Amerique, l'Asie, leurs archives et leurs musees.

C'est aujourd'hui le temps de rapprocher Marquisiens et Occidentaux de pages uniques de leur histoire et heritage culturel. Dans cet ouvrage sont reunis, pour la premiere fois en francais, ces pans de recits. Grace a une collection d'illustrations plus vaste que l'edition anglaise originale de 2010, aux vocabulaires et annotations de Marie-Noelle Ottino-Garanger, il est apporte un eclairage, aussi riche que possible, sur cette etonnante aventure humaine.

English abstract

The first Russian voyage around the world was launched at the turn of the nineteenth century in the wake of Bougainville’s, Cook’s and La Perouse’s expeditions to the Pacific. Led by the Baltic German commander Adam von Krusenstern, the expedition comprised a diverse intellectual community of savants and naturalists from Switzerland, Germany, modern day Estonia, and Russia. In May 1804, the ships Nadezhda and Neva berthed at Nuku Hiva Island in the Marquesas (French Polynesia), recording an invaluable snapshot of traditional Nuku Hivan society on the eve of profound cultural change.

Twelve days later, reeling from a bitter conflict between the captains and the onboard representative of the Russian Tsar, the ships left the island laden with food, sweet water, knowledge, artefacts, scores of sketches, a French-marquesan and many tattoos. On their return home, they told their stories in a variety of voices, languages, genres and media which have since been scattered by wars and revolution across the archives and museums of Europe, America and Asia.

The time is here to reunite Marquesans with this unique page of their history and cultural heritage. This study, for the first time in the French language, brings together these disparate stories and images. With a collection of images far vaster than that of the original 2010 English edition, along with vocabularies, data drawn from the records of the expedition members, and extensive notes by Marie-Noelle Ottino-Garanger proving broader context, this edition is encyclopaedic in its scope.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Sidestone Press
Date
31 January 2022
Pages
408
ISBN
9789464260182