Launch of a hot-air balloon in St Petersburg and portraits of the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, Alexander I and Elizabeth exemplars.

Kankai Ibun-ki [Strange Tales of a Circumnavigation].

Kankai ibunki.

Strange Tales of a Circumnavigation.

環海異聞.

Kankai ibun ki.

Extraordinary Accounts from around the Sea.

These hand-copied volumes comprise an illustrated account of 16 Japanese sailors who were shipwrecked on the Russian coast in the winter of 1793. They ended up travelling from Russia, where they stayed almost ten years, to Great Britain, the Canary Islands, Brazil, the Marquesas, and back to Kamchat...

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Full title:	Launch of a hot-air balloon in St Petersburg and portraits of the Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, Alexander I and Elizabeth [electronic resource] exemplars.
Alternative titles:	Kankai Ibun-ki [Strange Tales of a Circumnavigation]. Kankai ibunki. Strange Tales of a Circumnavigation. 環海異聞. Kankai ibun ki. Extraordinary Accounts from around the Sea.
Other authors:	Otsuki, Gentaku, 1756-1827, scholar and phyiscian., 大槻, 磐水, 1757-1827., Ōtsuki, Gentaku, 1757-1827., 志村, 弘強., Shimura, Hiroatsu.
Format:	Physical Object
Language:	Japanese
Published:	1805.
Series:	SOAS Digital Library. REGIONS. FORMATS. ARTE. REAS. REUR. IASC. ISOAS.
Subjects:	Voyages around the world. 探検. Exploration and discovery. アジア -- 日本.
Online access:	Electronic Resource Click here to view record