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The Japan Expedition, 1852-1854 : the personal journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry
- Title
- The Japan Expedition, 1852-1854 : the personal journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry / edited by Roger Pineau ; with an introduction by Samuel Eliot Morison.
- Author
- Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858
- Publication
- Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | 1735.708 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Pineau, Roger, 1916-1993
- Description
- xix, 241 pages illustrations, charts, maps (on lining papers), color plates, portrait; 29 cm
- Series Statement
- Publication / Smithsonian Institution ; 4743
- Uniform Title
- Publication (Smithsonian Institution) ; 4743.
- Alternative Title
- Personal journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- Tagebuch.
- Autobiographies.
- Travel books (form)
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 235-236.
- Contents
- Underway, November 1852 -- Madeira, 12-15 December 1852 -- Shipboard discipline -- Atlantic weather and wind -- St. Helena, 10-11 January 1853 -- Mauritius, 18-28 February 1853 -- Ceylon, 10-15 March 853 -- Singapore, 25-29 March 1853 -- Hong Kong, 7 April 1853 -- Canton, April 1853 -- Macao, April 1853 -- Shanghai, 4-16 May 1853 -- Lew Chew, 26 May-9 June 1853 -- The Bonin Islands, 14-18 June 1853 -- Back to Naha, 23 June-2 July 1853 -- To Japan, 7 July 1853 -- Edo Bay, 8 July 1853 -- Preliminary encounters, 9 July 1853 -- Surveys and soundings, 9-13 July 1853 -- Kurihama reception, 14 July 1853 -- Parthian surveys, 15-16 July 1853 -- Au Revoir Edo, 17 July 1853 -- Return to Lew Chew, 25 July-1 August 1853 -- Hong Kong, August 1853 -- Canton, August 1853 -- Macao sojourn, September 1853-January 1854 -- Japan return hastened, January 1854 -- Lew Chew, 20 January-7 February 1854 -- Return to Edo Bay, 11 February 1854 -- Beginning negotiations -- Second landing in Japan, 8 March 1854 -- First American burial, 9 March 1854 -- Treaty articles considered, 17 March 1854 -- Choosing open ports -- Daily notes -- American gifts -- Japanese curiosity -- Countryside stroll, 6 April 1854 -- Treaty house -- Japanese costumes and collations -- Reception on board Powhatan, 27 March 1854 -- Entertainment ashore, 31 March 1854 -- Gifts -- Approach to Edo -- Shimoda, 18 April-13 May 1854 -- Northward bound -- Hakodate and its people, 17 May-3 June 1854 -- Official transactions -- Shimoda revisited, 7-28 June 1854 -- Southward from Shimoda.
- LCCN
- 68009578
- OCLC
- ocm00000749
- 749
- SCSB-194070
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library