The wreck of the Sv. Nikolai

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The wreck of the Sv. Nikolai / edited and with an introduction by Kenneth N. Owens ; translated by Alton S. Donnelly ; with a new preface by the editor.

Owens, Kenneth N. (Added Author). Donnelly, Alton S. (Added Author). Tarakanov, Timofeĭ. Krushenie Rossiĭsko-amerikanskoĭ kompanii sudna "Svi͡atoĭ Nikolaĭ," pod nachalʹstvom shturmana Bulygina, pri severo-zapadnykh beregakh Ameriki. English. (Added Author). Hobucket, Ben. First coming of the White people to Quileute. (Added Author).

Summary:

In 1808 the Sv. Nikolai, owned by the Russian American Company, set sail from New Arkhangel (modern-day Sitka, Alaska) to explore and identify a site for a permanent Russian fur trading post on the mainland south of Vancouver Island. Heavy seas drove the ship aground in late December, forcing twenty-two crew members ashore, including Anna Petrovna Bulygin, the wife of ship captain Nikolai Isaakovich Bulygin. Over the next several months the shipwrecked crew clashed with Hohs, Quileutes, and Makahs, but with little knowledge of the country, the castaways soon found themselves owing their lives to the very tribes they had fought with upon arrival. The tribes captured and enslaved several of the crew members. In 1810 an American captain sailing for the Russian American Company ransomed the survivors.

Record details

ISBN: 0803286155
ISBN: 9780803286153
Physical Description: xvii, 110 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2001], ©2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Originally published: Portland, Or. : Western Imprints, 1985, in series: North Pacific studies series ; no. 8.

First work, translation of: Krushenie Rossiĭsko-amerikanskoĭ kompanii sudna "Svi͡atoĭ Nikolaĭ," pod nachalʹstvom shturmana Bulygina, pri severo-zapadnykh beregakh Ameriki.

Second work, First coming of the White people to Quileute by Ben Hobucket.

"Bison books"--Prel. page.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Preface -- Editorial Principles -- Introduction -- The Narrative of Timofei Tarakanov -- The Narrative of Ben Hobucket -- Appendix: Ivan Petrov's Fraudulent Tarakanov Document -- Notes.