The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. Written in the tradition of James ...Fenimore Cooper, but offering a much darker and more violent image of the American frontier, this was the first novel produced by Friedrich Gerstäcker, who would go on to become one of Germany's most famous and prolific authors. A crucial piece of a nineteenth-century transatlantic literary tradition, this long-awaited translation and scholarly edition of the novel offers a startling revision of the frontier myth from a European perspective.
Australia Gerstäcker, Friedrich; Monteath, Peter
2016
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Gerstäcker, the most illustrious and prolific of German travel writers, set foot in Australia in 1851, having walked across the Andes, traipsed the goldfields of California, and sailed over the ...Pacific in search of adventures. In this translation of his book "Australien", his lively travelogue is made available for the first time in English.
