The Russians at Port Jackson 1814-1822
Author: Glynn Barratt
ABOUT THE BOOK
“In the early nineteenth century Russian ships en route from Europe to what is now Alaska fairly often called in at Sydney. While the ships remained in Sydney, at anchor in Port Jackson, some highly observant and well educated naval officers, and even seamen, had close dealings with the Aborigines of the locality, especially the failing Cammeraigal tribe, and certain of them recorded accurately what they saw and heard.
“This book offers readers the first English translations of the “Sydney sections” of eye witness accounts by nine Russians who came to Australia with the ships Suvorov (1814), Blagonamerennyy, Otkrytiye, Vostok and Mirnyi (1820), and Apollon (1822), among them the famous Captain Bellingshausen who was the first to circumnavigate the Antarctic continent.
“The book is illustrated with contemporary Russian Sketches of the Port Jackson area and with recent photographs by the author of Aboriginal artefacts collected by the Russians in the Sydney area up to 1822 and now housed in museums in the USSR.
The above text is quoted from the back cover of the book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
“The author Glynn Barratt is Professor of Russian at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Sometime Scholar of Churchill College, Cambridge, he is a fellow of the Royal Asiatic and Royal Historical societies of Great Britain, an authority on Russian naval and diplomatic history, and the author of a dozen books, including three on the Russian Decembrist Revolution of 1825.
Among his recent ethnohistorical and Pacific works are –
The Russian Navy and Australia to 1825 (1979),
Bellingshausen: a visit to New Zealand, 1820, (1979) and
Russia in Pacific waters: the beginnings (1980)”
Published 1981 in Australia by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies
PO Box 553 Canberra City ACT 2601 Australia
National Library of Australia
ISBN : 0855751142 (Hard Cover)
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