Description: 1804, 1ère expédition russe autour du monde: découvertes de l'Autre, d'Ailleurs et de soi, à Nuku Hiva.
Brief description: Russian-born Dr. Elena Govor now lives in Australia, where she completed her doctorate in history at the Australian National University in 1996. Her research focuses on cross-cultural contacts between Russians and the peoples of the Pacific and Australia, which she has examined in a range of publications including 'Speckled Bodies: Russian Voyagers and Nuku Hivans, 1804' in Nicholas Thomas et al, Tattoo: bodies, art and exchange in the Pacific and the West (Duke University Press, 2005), and Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva: Russian Encounters and Mutiny in the South Pacific (University Hawaii Press, 2010).