Voyages of maintenance: Exploration, infrastructure, and modernity on the Krusenstern–Lisianskii circumnavigation between Russia and Japan from 1803 to 1806

• Main Author: Werrett, S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2021
• Subjects: Exploration; Russia; maintenance; navigation; repairs; global; science; technology; Kamchatka; Nuku Hiva; Japan; Urey
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10140755/1/00732753211060186.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10140755/

Against the common association of voyages of exploration with discovery and the arrival of modernity, this essay argues that maintenance and repair were essential to the success of such voyages and that maintenance and innovation are best seen as fundamentally integrated. Using the Russian circumnav...