PASZKOWSKI Lech - POLACIANS IN AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA 1790-1940 AUTOGRAPH AUTHOR Illustrations

PASZKOWSKI Lech - POLACIANS IN AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA 1790-1940

AUTHOR'S AUTOGRAPH.

With a foreword by Jerzy Zubrzycki. B. Swiderski, London 1962. widow illustrated (70 photographs). Dimensions: 16.5x24cm; pages: 344. Hardcover in publisher's wrappers (wrapper deterioration), block tight, pages clean.

Combination of the history of emigration with a biographical dictionary of prominent Poles who left their mark on the Antipodes. In addition, the book is a chronicle of Polish events in Australia. The author records visits of Polish artists to galleries and museums, performances of people of music, theater, ballet and opera. In addition, he notes the presence of people connected with the Australian continent briefly, such as Bronislaw Malinowski or Witkacy, who visited Australia in search of artistic impressions or with lectures. A great merit of the study is also the meticulous description of Polish institutions - school, social, cultural and religious - which operated in places of Polish settlement since the early 19th century.