| Winnetou: The Apache Knight (Dodo Press) Contributor(s): May, Karl (Author) |
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ISBN: 1409910369 ISBN-13: 9781409910367 Publisher: Dodo Press OUR PRICE: $14.44 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Tells the story of a young Apache chief told by his white friend and blood-brother Old Shatterhand. The action takes place in the US Southwest, in the latter half of the 1800s, where the Indian way of life is threatened by the first transcontinental railroad. His tragic death foreshadows the death of his people. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6" W x 9" (0.60 lbs) 180 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 America. He also wrote poetry, and several plays. He composed music, being proficient with several musical instruments. May €(TM)s musical version of Ave Maria became very well known. He used many different pseudonyms, including Capitan Ramon Diaz de la Escosura, M. Gisela, Hobble-Frank, Karl Hohenthal, D. Jam, Prinz Muhamel Lautr (c)amont, Ernst von Linden, P. van der Luwen, Franz Langer, and Emma Pollmer. For the novels set in America, he described the characters of Winnetou, the wise chief of the Apache Tribe, and Old Shatterhand. Non-dogmatic Christian feelings and values play an important role, and May €(TM)s heroes are often described as being of German ancestry. In addition, following the Romantic ideal of the €œnoble savage € his Native Americans are generally portrayed as innocent victims of white law-breakers, and many are presented as heroic characters. In his later works, there is a strong element of mysticism. |