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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy, In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition, We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works, Friedrich Gerstäcker May,, Hamburg May,, Braunschweig was a German traveler and novelist, He was the son of Friedrich Gerstäcker, a celebrated opera singer, After being apprenticed to a commercial house, he learnt farming in Saxony, In, however, just younger thanand having imbibed from Robinson Crusoe a taste for adventure, he went to America and wandered over a large part of the United States, supporting himself by whatever work came to hand.
He became fireman on a steamboat, deck hand, farmer, silversmith, and merchant, After wandering through most of the United States, spending some time as a hunter and trapper in the Indian territory, and inkeeping a hotel at Point Coupée, Louisiana, he retu Friedrich Gerstäcker May,, Hamburg May,, Braunschweig was a German traveler and novelist.
He was the son of Friedrich Gerstäcker, a celebrated opera singer, After being apprenticed to a commercial house, he learnt farming in Saxony, In, however, just younger thanand having imbibed from Robinson Crusoe a taste for adventure, he went to America and wandered over a large part of the United States, supporting himself by whatever work came to hand.
He became fireman on a steamboat, deck hand, farmer, silversmith, and merchant, After wandering through most of the United States, spending some time as a hunter and trapper in the Indian territory, and inkeeping a hotel at Point Coupée, Louisiana, he returned to Germany six adventurous years later in.
To his great surprise, he found himself famous as an author, His mother had shown his diary, which he regularly sent home, and which contained descriptions of his adventures in the New World, to the editor of the Rosen, who published them in that periodical.
These sketches having found favour with the public, Gerstäcker issued them inunder the title Streif und Jagdzüge durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika, Inhis first novel, Die Regulatoren in Arkansas, appeared marking the start of a successful writing career, Henceforth the stream
of his productiveness flowed on uninterruptedly, FromtoGerstäcker travelled round the world, visiting North and South America, Polynesia and Australia, He experienced the California gold rush, crossed the South Pacific on a whaler, and wandered through Australia and experienced a "gold rush" there, On his return to Germany, he settled in Leipzig, Inhe again went to South America, chiefly with a view to inspecting the German colonies there and reporting on the possibility of diverting the stream of German emigration in this direction.
The result of his observations and experiences he recorded in Achtzehn Monate in Südamerika, Inhe accompanied Duke Ernest of Saxe Coburg Gotha to Egypt and Abyssinia, and on his return settled at Coburg, where he wrote a number of novels descriptive of the scenes he had visited.
InGerstäcker again undertook a long journey, visiting North America, Venezuela and the West Indies, He visited Mexico right after the collapse of the Second Mexican Empire, a situation about which he wrote a few passages in one of his books, On his return lived first at Dresden and then at Brunswick, While preparing for a journey to India, China and Japan, he suffered a fatal cerebral haemorrhage on May,, The widely traveled adventurer left an oeuvre ofvolumes, which he edited himself for his Jena publisher H, Costenoble. His stories and novels inspired numerous imitators: Karl May profited from him and used landscape descriptions as well as subjects and characters, Even theatre and movie companies borrowed from his work: the plot of the musical Brigadoonwas adapted from Gerstäcker's short story Germelshausen, The Friedrich Gerstäcker Gesellschaft e, V. Fr. G. society founded inin Braunschweig offers information about Gerstäcker and runs a museum about his work, sitelink.