Collected works. In 2 volumes

“The beloved writer in Germany, a widely popular creator, the creator of the so -called ethnographic novel, who lived for a long time in North and South America, in California, on Sandwich Islands and Egypt,“ Hersstekecker is an invaluable friend of light and entertaining reading. He introduces the customs, morals and life of those distant
semi -precious countries where he had a chance to spend many years, experience many all kinds of unexpected adventures and collect a rich treasury of instructive observations. His essays, stories and novels about the "country of the promised" were to the reader. These were not an essay, but an eyewitness. He knew all that he wrote about firsthand. Whether it is the life of the pirates on the lost island ("Mississippi pirates") or the confrontation of a gang of conocraments and regulators in the far west ("meadow robbers") His "little gold detector in California" was translated into almost all European languages ​​and was repeatedly reprinted in Russia. The audience was waiting for his new novels - cognitive, adventure, ethnographic. She loved his works for the ease of syllable, entertaining and for the fact that she could go with the author to distant unknown places. With confidence, we can say that today Friedrich Gershtekker will find his reader, ready to renounce the prose of everyday life and plunge into the world of extraordinary adventures