Winnetou

The famous German writer Karl May (1842-1912) is one of the most popular authors who wrote in the adventure genre, his books were translated in more than 30 languages ​​and published over one hundred million copies, numerous performances and movies were delivered.
It was most successful to him about the North American Indians, through the heroes of which are the noblest of all the red-walled Indian warriors Winnets and his white brother - a brave hunter and tracker of Old Shetterhand (clear hand), German by origin, largely personifying alter ego The writer himself. On these colorful, full compassion of the books of Karla May largely founded the submission of Europeans - especially Germans, Austrians, Chekhov, Dutch - about the American Indians, their struggle and their death, about the struggle of good and evil on the Wild West - a huge space between Missouri and San Francisco.
In the novel "Winnettu" of the reader, dangerous adventures, brutal contractions, rabid jumps, chase, meetings with apachas and kamchas and, of course, with the main characters - Winnet and Old Sheteterhand.
The full set of 45 illustrations of the famous Czech artist Josef Ulrich (1857-1930) is reproduced in the novel