Adelbert von Chamisso

Otto von Kotzebue

Louis Choris

Edward Mornin

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2002. North American Studies in 19th-Century German Literature. Vol. 32 General Editor: Jeffrey L. Sammons During the month of October 1816, San Francisco received a visit from the Russian brig Rurik, only the third non-Spanish vessel to call at what was then a small colonial garrison and mission town on the extreme edge of Spanish North America. In this book the author provides English translations of reports of the visit (originally in German and French) by the ship's captain Otto von Kotzebue, naturalist Adelbert von Chamisso, and on-board artist Louis Choris. Eleven illustrations by Choris are also reproduced, including celebrated scenes and portraits of California mission Indians. Edward Mornin provides biographical sketches of the three reporters, a historical account of Rurik's round-the-world voyage, and a critical discussion of the observations of Kotzebue, Chamisso, and Choris, with their ideological and cultural determinants, especially with regard to the Indians under the control of the Spanish missionaries. The book shows how the narrative accounts of Kotzebue, Chamisso, and Choris, together with Choris's graphic record, continue to fascinate not only for their engaging portrayal of San Francisco's early inhabitants and the circumstances of their lives, but as shadow portraits of the reporters themselves and of the European cultures that produced them. Contents: Visit of Russian ship Rurik to San Francisco in 1816 - Translated reports of captain (Otto von Kotzebue), naturalist (Adelbert von Chamisso), and on-board artist (Louis Choris) - Reproductions of illustrations by Choris - Account of Rurik'sround-the-world voyage - Biographical sketches of Kotzebue, Chamisso, and Choris - Discussion of their views on Spanish colonial garrison and mission, mission Indians, soldiers and missionaries - Postcolonial assessment of reports and reporters.

The Visit of the Russian Ship Rurik to San Francisco in 1816 and the Men Behind the Visit

Through Alien Eyes

August Carl Mahr

The Visit of the "Rurik" to San Francisco in 1816

H. E. Lloyd

A three-volume translated account, published in 1821, of the pioneering Russian expedition that mapped the coast of Siberia and Alaska.

Undertaken in the Years 1815-1818, at the Expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the Ship Rurick

A Voyage of Discovery, Into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the Purpose of Exploring a North-East Passage

De ontdekkingsreis in de Zuidzee en naar de Behringstraat, gedaan de jaren 1815-1818, onder het bevel van Otto van Kotzebuë, luitenant der Rus-keizerlijke marine

Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz

"Kotzebue is now considered one of the most important Russian explorers of the Pacific. The first English edition of this important voyage appeared two years after its first publication in Russian in 1828. It contained "reliable evidence of the potential strategic and economic value of the Northwest region of North America, as well as indicating a growing Russian presence in this area, which alarmed some Englishmen" (Hill). Kotzebue's second voyage to the Pacific, made eight years after his highly successful first voyage, combined scientific exploration and discovery with the carrying of cargo to Kamchatka and furthering the interests of the Russian American Fur Company in Alaska and on the Northwest Coast. The winter of 1824 was spent in California and Hawaii, and the narrative provides an extensive account of the Fort Ross settlement, as well as a description of San Francisco Bay. The expedition also visited Brazil, Chile, the Society Islands, Pitcairn, Micronesia, and Alaska."--Abebooks website.

A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26

Otto von Kotzebue wurde 1787 als Sohn deutscher Eltern in Reval/Estland geboren und war Offizier der Russischen Marine. Bereits in seinen frühen Jugendjahren fuhr er zusammen mit dem Kapitän von Krusenstern mit auf die erste russische Weltumsegelung. Im Jahr 1815 übernahm er die Leitung einer Expedition um die Welt, an der auch wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter teilnahmen, wie unter anderem der Dichter Adalbert von Chamisso und der Maler Louis Schoris. Auf der dreijährigen Reise durchquerten sie die Bering-Straße mit seinem Schiff "Rurik" und entdeckte den nach ihm benannten Kotzebuesund. 1823 - 1826 hisste von Kotzebue erneut die Segel um ein weiteres Mal die Erde in wissenschaftlicher Mission zu umrunden. Ziel dieser Fahrt war die Ergänzung der Ergebnisse, die sie auf ihrer ersten Reise gewonnen hatten. Das vorliegende Buch beinhaltet die Reiseerfahrungen dieser Expedition und ist ein hoch interessant zu lesendes Werk. Es handelt sich hierbei um den zweiten Band der zweiteiligen Ausgabe und ist in englischer Sprache vorliegend.

A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823 - 1826

In Search of a North-east Passage, Undertaken in the Years 1815,16,17, and 18, in the Ship Rurick

Voyage of Discovery in the South Seas, and to Behring Straits

Neue reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1823, 24, 25, und 26

Otto von Kotzebue

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