History of Kamtschatka, and the Kurilski Islands, with the Countries Adjacent

History of Kamtschatka, and the Kurilski Islands, with the Countries Adjacent

Grieve, James; Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich

Cambridge University Press

11/2014

316

Mole

Inglês

9781108075428

15 a 20 dias

550

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Advertisement; The Russian editor's preface; Part I: 1. Of Kamtschatka; 2. Of the roads in Kamtschatka; 3. Of the Kurilski islands; 4. Of America; Part II: 1. Of the soil; 2. Of the volcano's or burning mountains; 3. Of the hot springs; 4. Of the metals and minerals; 5. Of trees and plants; 6. Of land animals; 7. Of the Vitimsky sables, and the method of hunting them; 8. Of the sea beasts; 9. Of fishes; 10. Of the birds; 11. Of insects; 12. Of the tides in the Penschinska Sea and eastern ocean; Part III: 1. Of the natives of Kamtschatka in general; 2. Some conjectures concerning the names of the Kamtschadales; 3. Of the ancient state of the natives of Kamtschatka; 4. Of the ostrogs, or habitations, of the Kamtschadales; 5. Of their household furniture, and other necessary utensils; 6. Of the labour appropriated to the different sexes; 7. Of their dress; 8. Of their diet and liquors, together with their method of cooking; 9. The method of travelling with dogs; 10. Of the Kamtschadales' method of making war; 11. The opinions of the Kamtschadales concerning God, the formation of the world, and other articles of religion; 12. Of their shamans, or conjurors; 13. Of their ceremonies; 14. Of their feasts and diversions; 15. Of their friendship, and hospitality; 16. Of their courtship, marriages, etc.; 17. Of the birth of their children; 18. Of their diseases and remedies; 19. Of the burial of the dead; 20. Omitted; 21. Of the nation of the Koreki; 22. Account of the nation of the Kuriles; Part IV: 1. Of the first discoveries made of Kamtschatka, and the planting of Russian colonies there; 2. Of the mutiny of the Cossacks, and their discovery of the islands lying between Kamtschatka and Japan; 3. Of the commissaries who succeeded Vasili Kolesof; 4. Of the rebellion of Kamtschatka; 5. The present state of the forts and villages of Kamtschatka; 6. Of the manner in which the Cossacks live there; 7. Of their trade; 8. Of the different roads between Jakutski and Kamtschatka; Index.
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