Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806
Subtitle: 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
By: translated from the original German, by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq
Contributors: Hoppner, Richard Belgrave, translator
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1813
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Subjects: Voyages around the world; Nadezhda (Ship); Neva (Ship)
Other titles: Voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806
Notes: 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.