VISNIOWSKI Sygurd
CHILDREN OF THE QUEEN OF OCEANIA
Warsaw, 1877; published by Gebethner & Wolff, pp. 447; format 12x17.5 cm
Sygurd Wiśniowski (1841-1892) - Polish writer, reporter, translator, novelist, columnist, traveler. In 1858-1859 he traveled to Turkey and Romania and Italy. He belonged to Garibaldi's troops, then studied at the Polish Military School in Cuneo. From 1862 to 1872 he traveled and worked in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. There he also worked as a gold prospector, farm worker, sailor and journalist. In 1872 he returned to Poland. His travel columns appeared in Gazeta Narodowa, published in Lviv. They were collected and published together in 1873 entitled Ten Years in Australia. He traveled to the United States (as a reporter), then returned to his homeland again and settled in Galicia, where he bought oil lands. He remained there until the end of his life. His work was highly regarded by Henryk Sienkiewicz and Maria Konopnicka, among others. Wiśniowski's reports from trips to Australia and America are among the classics of reporters.
In 1877, Sygurd Wisniowski, a former Garibaldi soldier and sailor, gold prospector and translator of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, published a novel entitled Children of the Queen of Oceania. Its action takes place in the mid 1860s in New Zealand during the Maori war against the English colonizers.
Rare!
HARDBACK HALF LEATHER BINDING OF THE PERIOD, SPINE WITH RAISED SCROLLS, EMBOSSING AND GILDING
DB condition/ spine after conservation, discoloration in places
