Through alien eyes : the visit of the Russian ship Rurik to San Francisco in 1816 and the men behind the visit / Edward Mornin

Author:: Mornin, Edward
Published:: Oxford ; New York : P. Lang, [2002]
Copyright Date:: ©2002
Physical Description:: 125 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:: Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787-1846, Chamisso, Adelbert von, 1781-1838, and Choris, Louis, 1795-1828

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Series:

North American studies in 19th-century German literature, 0891-4095 ; v. 32

Contents:

Excerpt from Voyage of discovery / Otto von Kotzebue -- Excerpt from his Diary / Adelbert von Chamisso -- Excerpt from Remarks and opinions / Adelbert von Chamisso -- Excerpt from Picturesque voyage around the world / Louis Choris -- Lithographs of California / Louis Choris.

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ISBN:

3906769593
0820458716 (US)

Note:

Includes English translations of reports (originally in German and French) of the October 1816 visit of the Russian ship Rurik to San Francisco by the ship's captain, Otto von Kotzebue, naturalist Adelbert von Chamisso, and on-board artist Louis Choris.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-125).

Source of Acquisition:

UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Edwin Earle Sparks Memorial Fund; 20023.

Endowment Note:

Edwin Erle Sparks Memorial Library Fund

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