Table of Contents

Introduction
The Royal Navy in the Pacific
The Pursuit to Petropavlosk
Japan, China, the Amur River
Petropavlosk Again
The Gulf of Tartary
The Sea of Okhotsk
The Amur Estuary
Plans
The Victims
Conclusion

About the Author

John D. Grainger is the author of numerous books for a variety of publishers, including nine for Boydell and Brewer, including The British Navy in the Baltic, Dictionary of British Naval Battles, The First Pacific War: Britain and Russia, 1854-56 and The British Navy in the Caribbean.

Reviews

The present volume is the first attempt to present a coherent account of the whole episode and is thus to be warmly welcomed.
*THE JOURNAL OF POLAR RECORD*

A useful addition to the literature on the Crimean War. It will be of interest to naval historians and scholars of the Pacific region.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*

[Grainger] writes in a provocative and engrossing style and orders and arranges his account in a way that makes sense out of what was a confusing and complex situation. His command of the available sources is excellent. [The book] is an exceptional study worthy of the widest readership. It will enlighten not only all those interested in the naval, imperial, and diplomatic history of the mid-nineteenth-century but also should be read by those interested in the wider Pacific region and why it is the way it is now.
*VICTORIAN STUDIES*

An original, fresh look at an aspect of the Crimean War that is too often overlooked or deliberately ignored by historians. A very useful study not only for those interested in a detailed account of the Royal Navy's Pacific campaign, but also for anyone interested in the wider context and consequences of the unfortunately named 'Crimean' War.
*JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES*

A detailed narrative account of events leading up to and unfolding during the war and their effects. A detailed study of a war previously neglected by naval historians.
*INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY*

[Does] a good job examining this neglected aspect of the Crimean War. This fine book should be in the library of everyone interested in the Crimean War, or British or Russian naval history.
*NAUTICAL RESEARCH JOURNAL*

A welcome book-length account of little-known events in a distant theatre of the Crimean War.
*THE NORTHERN MARINER*