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Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff (1774–1852)
Voyages and Travels in Various Parts of the World, during the years 1803,
1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807
London: H. Colburn, 1813–1814
NYPL, General Research Division
A physician and naturalist, Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff left the University
of Göttingen to join the first Russian circumnavigation of the world, organized
and led by Adam Johann von Krusenstern (in Russian, Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern,
1770–1846), a Baltic German nobleman from the province of Estland (present-day
Estonia). Like other explorers, von Langsdorff was struck by the practice of
tattooing, which was widespread in the South Sea islands. He regarded tattooing
as a substitute for clothing, and the complex symmetrical tattoos as the natives’ counterpart
to expensive clothing in Europe.
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