Author: August von KotzebuePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Count Benyowsky
Author: August von KotzebueIn the Land of the Romanovs
Author: Anthony CrossPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783740574
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical project that records the details of over 1200 English-language accounts of the Russian Empire. Ranging chronologically from the accession of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613 to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of first-hand accounts of Russia ever to be published. Far more than an inventory of accounts by travellers and tourists, Anthony Cross’s ambitious and wide-ranging work includes personal records of residence in or visits to Russia by writers ranging from diplomats to merchants, physicians to clergymen, gardeners to governesses, as well as by participants in the French invasion of 1812 and in the Crimean War of 1854-56. Providing full bibliographical details and concise but informative annotation for each entry, this substantial bibliography will be an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in contacts between Russia and the West during the centuries of Romanov rule.
The Betrothal
Author: Maurice MaeterlinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Burgomaster of Stilemonde
Author: Maurice MaeterlinckPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
SCENE OF THE PLAY The Scene is laid at the end of August, 1914, at Stilemonde, a small town in Belgian Flanders. The first Act begins at 10 A.M. and ends at 12 noon; the second begins at 2 P.M. and ends at 4 P.M.; the third begins at 5:30 P.M. and ends at 7 P.M. on the same day.
Count Benyowsky, or the Conspiracy of Kamtschatka. A tragi-comedy ... translated from the German [of Kotzebue], by the Rev. W. Render, etc
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Author: Maurice Auguste comte de BenyowskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Count Benyowsky; Or, The Conspiracy of Kamtschatka
Author: August von KotzebuePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tragicomedy
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Count Benyowsky, Or, The Conspiracy of Kamtschatka
Author: August von KotzebueCook, the Discoverer
Author: Georg ForsterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781875567492
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This is the first publication in English of this essay by Georg Forster in full facsimile of the original Berlin printing of 1787. Forster, who accompanied Cook on his second voyage, originally wrote the essay as an introduction to his translation of the German edition of the official third voyage account. This new translation, complete with notes and a select bibliography, has been commissioned especially for this edition. The text is accompanied by an introductory essay by Dr Nigel Erskine of the Australian National Maritime Museum which provides an insight into the fractured relationship between Georg Forster and the British establishment.
Count Benyowsky; Or, The Conspiracy Of Kamtschatka
Author: August von KotzebueA Voyage Round the World, 2 vols.
Author: George ForsterPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824820916
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
George Forster's A Voyage Round the World presents a wealth of geographic, scientific, and ethnographic knowledge uncovered by Cook's second journey of exploration in the Pacific (1772-1775). Accompanying his father, the ship's naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, on the voyage, George proved a knowledgeable and adept observer. The lively, elegant prose and critical detail of his account, based loosely on his father's journal, make it one of the finest works of eighteenth-century travel literature and an account of prime importance in the history of European contact with Pacific peoples. The Forsters' publications reveal the sophistication and enthusiasm they brought to their observation of Polynesian peoples as well as a sensitivity to the moral ambiguities of contact. The two volumes of George Forster's work include substantially richer descriptions of encounters with island inhabitants than either his father's classic work (Observations Made during a Voyage round the World, UH Press, 1996) or Cook's official narrative, and its confident, even visionary, style incorporates a good deal of polemic, particularly in its criticism of the treatment of islanders by Cook's crew. In addition to the range and depth of its anthropological considerations, it provides a thrilling account of life aboard one of Cook's vessels. In its author's German translation, this work becomes a classic of natural history writing, but its original English version has long been neglected by anglophone scholars. This new scholarly edition makes this important book readily available for the first time since its initial publication more than two centuries ago. But it also presents the work in fresh terms, making it more accessible and relevant to a contemporary audience. The valuable introduction and annotations draw on the wide range of anthropological and ethnohistorical scholarship published since the 1960s and contextualize the book in relation to both the cultures of Oceania documented by the Forsters and the history of European voyaging in the Pacific. Appendixes include a translation of the introduction to the German edition and the polemical pamphlets by George Forster and the ship's astronomer William Wales, in which some of the book's more controversial claims were debated. A Voyage Round the World brings the disciplines of history and anthropology to bear on Cook's voyages in an illuminating and readable fashion. This edition will help complete the corpus of basic documents on Cook's voyages--a crucial resource for researchers in cultural, Pacific, and maritime history; archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians; and most recently for scholars engaged in revisionist interpretations of eighteenth-century exploration and colonization.