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Als Feldmesser beim Eisenbahnbau ger?t Karl in den Wilden Westen. Es kommt zu Konflikten mit wei?en Rowdies und den dort ans?ssigen Indianern. Dank seiner F?higkeit, den Gegner mit der blo?en Faust besinnungslos zu schlagen, erh?lt er den Ehrennamen Old Shatterhand. Sein Edelmut... Read Full Overview

Karl May's German-language novel of the American West has been a perennial favorite in Europe since its release in 1892. The story of the German-born frontiersman Old Shatterhand and his Apache companion Winnetou in the western plains and mountains has been reprinted innumerable... Read Full Overview

Karl May's most popular work, Winnetou is the story of a young Apache chief told by his white friend and bloodbrother Old Shatterhand. The action takes place about a century ago in the American Southwest, where the Indian way of life is threatened by the construction of the first... Read Full Overview

Karl May's most popular work originally published in 1892 and influenced by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Winnetou is the story of a young Apache chief told by his white friend and blood-brother Old Shatterhand. The action takes place in the U.S. Southwest, in the latter half of the... Read Full Overview

Karl Friedrich May (1842-1912) was one of the best selling German writers of all time, noted mainly for books set in the American Old West and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East; in addition, he also wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South... Read Full Overview

Im Wilden Westen Nordamerikas begegnet der aus Deutschland stammende Erz?hler Karl als Landvermesser einer Eisenbahngesellschaft dem Apachenh?uptling Winnetou. Nach bestandenem Kampf um sein Leben gewinnt der sp?tere Old Shatterhand das Vertrauen Winnetous und die Liebe von Nscho-Tschi,... Read Full Overview

Winnetou The Apache Knight is a classic Western adventure novel written by the German author Karl May. The book tells the story of the friendship between a young German immigrant named Old Shatterhand and the Apache chief Winnetou. The two men meet in the American West and become... Read Full Overview

Der Ich-Erz?hler Charlie (vergleiche Karl May) alias Old Shatterhand arbeitet als Vermesser f?r die Eisenbahngesellschaft Great Western. Da seine Kollegen sehr tr?ge und trunks?chtig sind, muss er alles alleine machen. Zum Gl?ck stehen ihm die Westm?nner Sam Hawkens, Dick Stone... Read Full Overview

More copies of this German tale of the American West have been printed than any other novel in German publishing history. This lively English translation of the daring adventures of Old Shatterhand and the Apache Chief Winnetou puts the best-known work by Karl May 1842-1912 into... Read Full Overview