The Voyage of the Frigate Pallada

First published in 1858, this travel narrative follows Ivan Goncharov as official secretary on Admiral Putyatin's expedition in the frigate Pallada. The route runs from Kronstadt to England, then south to the Cape, Java, Hong Kong, and Japan, where the mission seeks a treaty at Nagasaki, before Goncharov returns overland through Siberia. He notes docks, colonial ports, shipboard routine, and first impressions of a Japan still limiting foreign entry. The book is a Russian diplomatic travel account, not a novel of Oblomov and not a naval log only.

8 leaves of contemporary drawings and etchings. Full blue-green cloth binding with an illustrative design in dark blue. Map endleaves in dark blue. Dark blue slipcase.